We investigate the effects of ownership concentration and corporate governance on the extent of risk-taking in an important emerging economy- Thailand. Ownership in Thai firms are substantially more concentrated than that in developed economies, providing a unique opportunity to study the effect...

The study shows critical roles of firm-specific information on herd behavior, which is underexplored in prior literature, albeit an increasing impact of firm-specific information on asset pricing. The main finding demonstrates that three of four selected measures of firm-specific information...

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the COVID-19 temporarily led restriction on short selling by the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET). We investigate the causal effect of short selling restriction on return, volatility and market quality from 2 September 2019 to 30 September 2020....