While trading appears to be hazardous to most individual investors' wealth, some individual investors with well-functioning informational networks may be able to turn a profit. Indeed, we find that in the Chinese stock market, wealthy investors with portfolio values above the 99.5th percentile...

We decompose the structural estimate of the probability of informed trading, PIN, into components that capture informed trading on good and on bad news. We estimate these two components at quarterly intervals, and provide new evidence that they capture informed trading around earnings...

Many proxies of illiquidity have been used in the literature that relates illiquidity to asset prices. These proxies have been motivated from an empirical standpoint. In this study, we approach liquidity estimation from a theoretical perspective. Our method explicitly recognizes the analytic...