Market professionals and regulators have been concerned by locked/crossed quotes (negative quoted spreads) for years. To ease the concerns that locked/crossed quotes may cause confusion or instability in financial markets and to promote market efficiency, the Securities and Exchange Commission...

"The psychological drivers of herding behavior and market overreaction shape current financial markets, often leading to price volatility and mispriced assets. Investors who are influenced by emotions may copy the actions of others, resulting in collective decision-making that can amplify market...

We show that updates to macroeconomic expectations among professional forecasters exhibit an offsetting pattern where increases in current-quarter predictions lead to decreases in three quarter ahead predictions. We further document evidence of individual overreaction at the quarterly frequency...

Internet is now one of the most popular channels for investors to acquire investment related information. However, investors with different investment experience in mutual fund may have different perceived quality, perceived risk, and perceived value about Internet information. Therefore, this...

Franklin Templeton Investments is a global leader in asset management serving clients for over 65 years in over 150 countries and is famous in Taiwan. This research takes Franklin Templeton Investments as an example. We investigate the relationships between brand image, perceived quality, brand...

We examine the announcement effects of consumer sentiment on US stock and stock futures markets. First, we find that the consumer sentiment announcement has valuable information content. Second, an asymmetric response is observed for “good” versus “bad” sentiment news. Specifically, when...

This paper demonstrates that both consumer utility and event organizer profits increase when tournaments played at neutral sites sell tickets via options, which are exercisable only if the desired team reaches a given round of the tournament, and advanced selling; rather than just utilizing an...

I propose violent crime growth as a measure of revealed marginal utility growth of heterogeneous consumers in incomplete markets. Consumer heterogeneity is measured using the cross-sectional average and cross-sectional variance of crime growth exploiting a monthly panel of reported crime...

Negative real short-term rates occur with much higher frequency after the turn of the millennium than in the 40 years prior. This phenomenon corresponds with a significant drop in growth after 2000. In a standard representative agent consumption-based asset pricing framework with external habit,...