This article examines the market discounts and announcement effects of private equity placements in China. We find that, on average, Chinese firms have about 30% market discounts for private placements, which is higher in number than those of US firms. Firms experience positive announcement...

We propose a new measure of market liquidity based on the investors' optimal searching behaviour. Thus, we add a wealth filter on Pagano (1989)'s measure of liquidity to build the strong tie between endogenous market participation and investor wealth, as has been documented by empirical works.

Research in behaviour finance has provided seemingly persuasive evidences that overconfidence affects asset prices. We provide a model with model uncertainty and overconfidence in which overconfidence could have no effect on asset prices.