This paper investigates the determinants of the order aggressiveness of institutional and individual investors on the Australian Stock Exchange. Utilizing a proprietary data set that identifies institutional and individual order submissions, we document that the institutional and individual...

We study the volume-volatility relation by splitting volume into the number of trades and the average trade size at individual and institutional level, and realized volatility into its continuous and jump components. We find that the number of trades is the most important variable driving...

This paper considers short sellers' activities when equity analysts are over-optimistic about a stock's future performance. We use a novel dataset of daily aggregated stock lending information for stocks short sold on the Australian Security Exchange (ASX) during the period of October 2005 to...