Based on 4 years data of individual stocks in SZ300P index, the paper investigates the positive feedback trading behavior and its asymmetry. Regressions with heterogeneous belief terms show the presence of positive feedback trading in Chinese market. The traders who react to daily, weekly or...

Previous studies show that individual investors play a dominant role in China's stock market. Their behavior of chasing-rise being stronger than killing-fall leads to asymmetry of feedback trading. Our article investigates how mutual funds react to this market force. Using China's stock and fund...

Using the gradual lifting of the short-sale ban in the Chinese stock market from 2010 to 2019 as natural experiments, the paper studies mutual funds’ strategies towards short-sales. The difference-in-difference regressions consistently show that mutual funds hold fewer shares when stocks are...

Using a comprehensive data set of earthquakes in China, we show that investors perceive increased credit risk in quasi-municipal bonds exposed to devastating earthquakes, leading to a significant positive risk premium. Our study identifies that this bias is temporary and decreases as investors...

We analyzed data collected from retail investors in the Chinese stock market from a Fintech mobile platform to find evidence of the self-fulfilling prophecy effect. We found a statistically significant correlation between the predicted and actual Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index (SSECI)...