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This paper considers short sellers' activities when equity analysts are over-optimistic about a stock's future performance. We use a novel dataset of daily aggregated stock lending information for stocks short sold on the Australian Security Exchange (ASX) during the period of October 2005 to...
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This study uses the trading records of institutional equity funds to examine their ex-dividend trading behaviour. We argue that trading is influenced by the tax incentives facing the fund, the characteristics of individual stocks and by changes in tax legislation. In aggregate, institutions...
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This paper aims to analyze the dynamics of information asymmetry in market microstructure through the Easley et al. (2002)'s PIN framework in two segments. Firstly, we test to see if factors such as size, value and illiquidity can be used to explain PIN. Secondly, we extend beyond the...
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Listed companies and institutional investors have called on market regulators to introduce mechanisms to curb high-frequency (HF) trading in financial markets. In this paper we suggest relative tick size is one such mechanism. We investigate for a non-fragmented market two HF trading proxies:...
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This study examines the impact of corporate earnings announcements on trading activity and speed of price adjustment, analyzing algorithmic and non–algorithmic trades during the immediate period pre– and post– corporate earnings announcements. We confirm that algorithms react faster and...
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