Using high frequency data from the London Stock Exchange (LSE), we investigate the relationship between informed trading and the price impact of block trades on intraday and inter-day basis. Price impact of block trades is stronger during the first hour of trading; this is consistent with the...

We present the first evidence of the impact of dark trading on adverse selection in an aggregate market. At moderate levels of dark trading, a positive liquidity effect dominates an information acquisition disincentive effect, such that dark trading induces reductions in both adverse selection...

Although it had a a lower income level than India in 1980, China's 2006 per capita gross domestic product stands more than twice that of India's. This paper investigates the role of the business environment in explaining China's productivity advantage using recent firm-level survey data. The...