Using a unique dataset from the Chinese stock market that keeps track of daily number of shareholders, we find that ownership breadth (proxied by number of shareholders) is negatively related to stock price volatility. However, consistent with the previous literature on volatility-volume...

This paper analyzes the intraday interdependence of price movements and order flows for actively traded NYSE stocks and their CBOE-traded options. Stock net-buy volume (buyer-initiated volume minus seller-initiated volume)has strong predictive ability for subsequent stock and option returns, but...

We examine the impact of the unique Japanese stock market microstructure on the pricing of stock index futures contracts. We use intraday transactions data for the Nikkei 225 Futures contracts in Osaka and the corresponding Nikkei 225 Index in Tokyo. Incorporating more realistic transaction-cost...