Stock futures offer leveraged positions and are expected to attract informed traders. However, many researchers have found that the information share of the stock futures is surprisingly small; the equity spot market appears to play a large role in price discovery. In this paper, we investigate...

Contrary to the weak role of single stock derivatives found in the price discovery literature, this paper finds that single stock futures (SSF) traded on a liquid exchange have a high average information share of 49 percent, which increases by six percentage points upon information arrival. A...

Regulators worldwide have introduced measures such as a fee on high order-to-trade ratio (OTR) to slow down high frequency trading, which existing research shows as having mixed results about its impact on market quality. We study a natural experiment in the Indian stock market where such a fee...

The case for investing in fusion energy has never been greater, given increasing global energy demand, high annual carbon dioxide output, and technological limitations for wind and solar power. Nevertheless, financing for fusion companies through traditional means has proven challenging. While...