Expiration day effects on European trading volumes

Trading Partners and Trading Volumes∗

The Effect of Stock Return Sequences on Trading Volumes

The present study explores the effect of the gambler’s fallacy on stock trading volumes. I hypothesize that if a stock’s price rises (falls) during a number of consecutive trading days, then the gambler’s fallacy may cause at least some of the investors to expect that the stock’s price “has” to subsequently fall (rise), and thus, to increase their willingness to sell (buy) the stock, resulting ...

The European Union Emission Trading Scheme - development of volumes and prices

EXPECTED PAYOFF OF TRADING STRATEGIES INVOLVING EUROPEAN OPTIONS FOR FUZZY FINANCIAL MARKET

Uncertainty inherent in the financial market was usually consid- ered to be random. However, randomness is only one special type of uncer- tainty and appropriate when describing objective information. For describing subjective information it is preferred to assume that uncertainty is fuzzy. This paper defines the expected payoof trading strategies in a fuzzy financial market within the framewor...

Empirical Evidence on the Impact of European Insider Trading Regulations

Between 1988 and 1994 ten European countries introduced or modified their regulations on insider trading. We evaluate in this article the impact of such regulatory changes on the risk, return, and some other characteristics of these ten markets. After extensive testing, we find that the evidence suggests that these regulations have had little (if any) impact on the market characteristics we exa...