We examine the short-run dynamic relation between daily institutional trading and stock price volatility in a retail investor-dominated emerging market. We find a significantly negative relation between volatility and institutional net trading that is mainly due to the unexpected institutional...

This study provides evidence that short selling influences the disclosure of bad news by firms. Managers have incentives to withhold or delay the release of bad news. As informed traders, short sellers enhance the informativeness of stock prices, especially related to bad news, potentially...

Traders differ in speed and their speed differences matter. I model strategic interactions induced when high frequency traders (HFTs) have different speeds in an extended Kyle (1985) framework. HFTs are assumed to anticipate incoming orders and trade rapidly to exploit normal-speed traders'...

We test the asset pricing implications of collateralized borrowing using the Chinese structured A-B funds. The funds are special in that the prices for the same asset with and without leverage are simultaneously observed with the leverage exogenously determined and time-varying. We find that...

Unlike issuer-paid credit rating agencies (CRAs), investor-paid CRAs are compensated by investors for their rating services. This paper documents that the coverage of an investor-paid rating agency (the Egan Jones Ratings, EJR) increases rated firms' stock price informativeness. To alleviate...

Price limits are commonly adopted regulatory restrictions in financial markets, yet their impacts on market performance remain controversial. Exploiting a price-limit widening policy in China, we investigate the impacts of price limits using the difference-in-differences methodology. Stocks are...