Order flow imbalance refers to the difference between market buy and sell orders during a given period. This paper is the first study to examine effects of order flow imbalance on returns of stocks traded on the German Xetra trading system on a daily basis. In contrast to previous studies on...

This paper investigates the relation between stock returns and trading volume (as measured by turnover) in a small emerging market, i.e., the Egyptian Securities Exchange (ESE). We are interested in examining the power of stock trading volume in predicting future return. To this end, we use a...

This paper investigates the influence of information asymmetry on the cross-sectional variation of volume-return relation. We find that the dynamic volume-return relation within medium-size trades has the most significant response to the degree of information asymmetry. We also show that the...