This paper focuses on Chinese institutional trading and its relation with stock returns. We use the data of institutional ownership of Topview from Shanghai Stock Exchange to get daily order flow of dealers and mutual funds. We first document that their daily order flow is persistent in the...

In contrast to the U-shaped intraday pattern of volume and volatility documented by previous literature, we document a reverse U-shaped intraday pattern of volume and volatility during the afternoon session in Chinese newborn CSI 300 index futures market. We analyze the dominant contracts of CSI...

In a recent book, Kolari et al. developed a new theoretical capital asset pricing model dubbed the ZCAPM. Based on out-of-sample cross-sectional tests using U.S. stocks, the ZCAPM consistently outperformed well-known multifactor models popular in the finance literature. This paper presents...

This paper proposes an investor sentiment factor that can capture the process of investors' extrapolation and explores the role of the sentiment factor in the asset pricing. Using U.S. stock market data, we empirically find that the modified three-factor model augmented with sentiment factor can...

We propose a new weighting function, generalized Wang transform, derived from normality invariance. This function takes various shapes, including concave, convex, S-shaped and inverse S-shaped functions, depending on the range of parameters and distinguishes the curvature and elevation of...