We examine the impact of bank loan announcements on stock liquidity. Using a comprehensive loan announcement sample over 14 years in Australia, we find that effective spreads and realized spreads of borrowers’ stocks fall after the announcements. The findings suggest these announcements send...

In this paper we examine the information content of extreme trading activity in the Chinese stock market. We find that zero-investment portfolios that are constructed by buying high-volume and selling low-volume stocks do not generate positive returns (high-volume return premium), which is...