This paper examines how the information flow and trading activity of the Jardine group of companies are affected after they are delisted from Hong Kong. An interesting aspect is that while the trading activity of the five companies in the Group is moved to Singapore, the core business remains in...

Fund flows are more correlated among funds with similar investment horizon, consistent with correlated demand for liquidity. We find that stocks held by institutions with more heterogeneous investment horizon are more liquid and have lower volatility of liquidity. Identification tests confirm...

This paper examines the relationship between the stock price synchronicity and analyst activity in emerging markets. Contrary to conventional wisdom that suggests that security analysts specialize in the production of firm-specific information, we find that the security analysts predominantly...

We provide a simple theoretical analysis based on Kyle's (1985) framework, and demonstrate how stock price synchronicity can affect the adverse information risk that market makers face and therefore the liquidity of the stock. Our empirical evidence is consistent with our theoretical conjecture....

We examine the role of competing exchanges to restore price parity following currency shocks during 2008, a year characterized by dramatic currency volatility. Burdens on the NYSE and home market to restore price parity for cross-listed stocks are more dynamic than previously thought....

Using a new and unique dataset on mutual fund stockholdings, we identify several interesting similarities and differences in the stock preferences of domestic and foreign fund managers from 11 developed countries. Our results show that both groups of fund managers consider basic stock...

This working paper was written by Kalok Chan (Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School), F.Y. Eric Lam (Independent Researcher)*, Giorgio Valente (Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research) and Siyuan Wu (Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School).Trading venues have...