In the Chinese stock market, the regulatory agency lists qualified stocks on announcement date and permits investors to sell short on the effective date, a practice that allows us to directly study the impact of short sale constraints. Applying an event study to 511 additions, between February...

This paper investigates the multi-period portfolio problem under the framework of Tobin. Specifically, the paper analyzes the optimal two-period portfolio strategy compared with the buy-and-hold strategy, the stochastic rebalancing strategy and the simple rebalancing strategy. According to the...

This paper highlights the relation of two independent streams of the literature, the literature on bond covenants and literature on credit rating inflation and addresses how bond covenants are used to inflate bond ratings to comply with regulation on market access. Agency cost theory predicts...

Traditional investment behavior is commonly based on the "rational man" hypothesis and efficient market hypothesis. However, the actual market environment is not entirely in line with these theories, as investors are not always fully rational. While research on investor sentiment has mainly...