This paper empirically investigates board meeting attendance and its effects on profit performance of Taiwanese listed corporations. High meeting attendance by directors themselves can enhance a firm's profitability but higher attendance by their representatives has an adverse effect....

We investigate the return and volatility spillovers between a Fintech ETF and the ETFs of the traditional financial industry with an empirical network model. We find that the traditional financial ETFs are still the main givers, and the Fintech ETF is the net receiver. The Fintech ETF does not...

This study examines the order aggressiveness and trading patience of foreign institutional traders, futures proprietary firm traders, individual day and non-day traders in the Taiwan index futures market. We consider order choice given a completely transparent limit order book. Our empirical...

This study investigates equity liquidity variation with a funding constraint across 38 countries and examines whether the effectiveness of a country’s legal institutions is systematically related to cross-country differences in fragile equity liquidity. Our results show that firms from...

This study examines the dynamic liquidity provision process by institutional and individual traders in the Taiwan index futures market, which is a pure limit order market. The empirical analysis obtains several interesting empirical results. We find that trader type affects liquidity provision...

This paper investigates the market microstructure of the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges. The two major Chinese stock markets are pure order-driven trading mechanisms without market makers, and we analyze empirically both limit order books. We begin our empirical modeling using the vector...

<section xml:id="fut21655-sec-0001"> This study examines whether deviations from put–call parity are informative about future volatility in the underlying index. Using the difference in implied volatility between call and put options to measure these deviations, we find that deviations from put–call parity predict future...</section>

The impact of changes in trading costs, due to decimalization, on informed trading and speed of information transmission between exchange‐traded funds (ETFs) and their corresponding index futures is examined. ETFs began to trade in decimals on January 29, 2001, and index futures continued to...