Our objective is to explore the correlation between stock market and investors’ attention in China’s stock market through empirical analysis method. We use search volume (SV) to represent individual investors’ attention. We choose 1380 a-share stocks in SSE and SZSE from 2008 to 2011. After summarizing time series data of different cross-sections, we get the panel data. According to the fixed e...

This paper provides a discussion of stamp duty and its effects. This is followed by an empirical study using changes in the rate of stamp duty in the UK as natural experiments. Because shares will be affected differently depending on how frequently they are traded, we can employ a difference-in-differences methodology. We find that the announcements of cuts in stamp duty had a significant and p...

Purpose To determine the impact of announcements regarding ICT-enabled offshoring on the share prices of public companies. Method/approach – The study is carried out by means of an event study. Findings The finding from this research is that investors do not tend to reward offshoring announcements. It is most likely that the value of the firm will be perceived as unchanged or if there is a reac...

Stock prices in each industry are one of the major issues in the stock market. Given the increasing number of shareholders in the stock market and their attention to the price of different stocks in transactions, the prediction of the stock price trend has become significant. Many people use the share price movement process when com-paring different stocks while investing, and also want to pred...