Using “A” shares accessible only to local investors (who account for 99% of stock investors in China), this paper tests if short-horizon contrarian and intermediate-horizon investment strategies generate abnormal profits. We find statistically significant abnormal profits for both the arbitrage portfolio-investment strategies. Detailed analysis indicates that: (1) an absolute dominance of non-i...

This paper investigates if bankruptcy of Japanese listed companies can be predicted using data from 1992 to 2005. We find that the traditional measures, such as Altman’s (1968) , Ohlson’s (1980) and the option pricing theorybased distance-to-default, previously developed for the US market, are also individually useful for the Japanese market. Moreover, the predictive power is substantially enha...

This paper assesses liquidity conditions in foreign exchange (FX) spot and derivatives markets using intra-day data against the background of FX dealers’ response to recent regulatory changes. Given that FX swap markets are by some measures even deeper that the spot market, an assessment of FX liquidity requires taking such instruments into account. We find that spot and swap market liquidity i...

This paper investigates the liquidity effect in asset pricing by studying the liquiditypremium relationship of an American Depositary Receipt (ADR) and its underlying share. Using the Amihud (2002) measure, the turnover ratio and trading infrequency as proxies for liquidity, we show that a higher ADR premium is associated with higher ADR liquidity and lower home share liquidity, in terms of cha...

Established illiquidity measures are constructed for emerging markets in Africa and used to determine which best explain trading costs. Costs of equity are derived from an augmented CAPM for a sample of emerging financial markets generally ignored in the literature. These include: South Africa and Namibia, three countries in North Africa and four in SSA, plus London and Paris as examples of int...

We analyze the location of stock trading for firms with a US cross-listing. The fraction of trading that occurs in the United States tends to be larger for companies from countries that are geographically close to the United States and feature low financial development and poor insider trading protection. For companies based in developed countries, trading volume in the United States is larger ...

Using a new hand-collected data set, this study examines the stock price manipulation in the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE). We examine the characteristics of the manipulated stocks, and their impacts on market quality. The results show that manipulated stocks tend to be small. The stock prices rise throughout the manipulation period, followed by a price reversal. The average cumulative abnormal r...

This paper proposes a di¤erent empirical approach to estimate the UIP by analyzing a large number of cross-country bilateral exchange rates using cross-section analysis. Di¤erent from conventional time-series UIP, cross-sectional UIP is examined with single equation estimation and panel regression model estimation. The exchange rates analyzed here include a broad spectrum of countries: develope...

We employ a multivariate BEKK GARCH model which allows news to affect conditional volatility in an asymmetric manner. The asymmetric model outperforms the standard symmetric model, implying that efficient financial decision makers should not treat good and bad news as homogenous. We estimate the conditional variance and covariance of the Japanese yen, Swiss franc and British pound vis-à-vis the...

This paper investigates the relation between liquidity and information based trading and the possible impact of market microstructure changes on this relationship. A model similar in spirit to that of wEasley et al. (1996b) J. Financ. 51(3) (1996) 811–833x is used to determine how often new information occurs and how it influences the composition of orders submitted to the market. There have be...