Using a set of transaction records from the Taiwan Futures Exchange, we examine risk-taking behavior subject to prior outcomes and study the house money and break-even effects across various trader types. The empirical results show that the degree of morning gains/losses nonlinearly influences...

The purpose of this paper is to look at the duration of the four-month period before the window dressing of Power Quotient International Co., LTD. (PQI) annual report between 2004 and 2005 was disclosed. The vultures sold 6,373,000 shares of PQI's stock based on the illegally obtained insider...

On July 1, 2002, the Taiwan Stock Exchange changed its closing price procedure to a five-minute call auction. This paper examines different types of trader behavior at the close before and after institution of the new mechanism. The results show that, since the new mechanism was introduced,...

To reduce market volatility observed at the close of trading and to enhance the fairness of the closing price, the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) changed the way it executed its closing transactions by instituting a five-minute closing call auction. This paper examines the effectiveness of this new...

This study investigates the trading activity of the Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX) and Singapore Exchange Derivatives Trading Limited (SGX‐DT) Taiwan Stock Index Futures markets by analyzing the intraday patterns of volume and volatility. In addition, the market closure theory, which may...

This paper compares the intraday components of bid‐ask spread in Taiwan stock index futures traded on Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX) and Singapore Exchange Derivatives Trading Limited (SGX‐DT). Variables that determine the components of spread are also examined. SGX‐DT uses a floor...

This paper examines the forecasting performance of three value-at-risk (VaR) models (RiskMetrics, Normal APARCH and Student APARCH). We explore and compare two different possible sources of performance improvements: asymmetry in the conditional variance and fat-tailed distributions. Performance...

This study examines the relationship between illegal insider trading and corporate governance. We analyze a sample of 156 cases: seventy-eight firms having illegal insider trading episodes and seventy-eight matched firms. We use three main factors—board composition, ownership structure, and...