The stock market participation rate for U.S. households with assets in both taxable and tax-deferred accounts is increasing with age in taxable accounts and decreasing with age in tax-deferred accounts. This paper asks whether a quantitative life-cycle model of portfolio choice can match these life-cycle patterns of stock market participation. The model incorporates several key features into a ...

Using a new hand-collected data set, this study examines the stock price manipulation in the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE). We examine the characteristics of the manipulated stocks, and their impacts on market quality. The results show that manipulated stocks tend to be small. The stock prices rise throughout the manipulation period, followed by a price reversal. The average cumulative abnormal r...

We investigate the origin and evolution of the legal institution of citizenship. We compile a new data set on citizenship laws across countries of the world which documents how these institutions have evolved from the legal tradition of common and civil law established in the course of the 19th century. We show that in the postwar period citizenship laws have responded endogenously and systemat...

We analyze the accuracy of the Lee / Ready (1991) trade classification algorithm and the simpler tick test. Our definition of true trade classification is based on whether the Makler (the equivalent of the specialist on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange) bought or sold shares. The Lee / Ready method classifies only 72.8% of the transactions correctly. The simpler tick test performs almost equally we...

Donald Trump’s election was a significant surprise. The reaction of company stock prices to the election reflects shifts in investor expectations about economic growth, taxes, and trade policy. High-beta stocks outperformed, presumably due to strengthened growth expectations. Expectations of significant corporate tax cuts boosted high-tax firms, but hurt firms with significant net operating los...

The consensus wisdom of active mutual fund managers, as reflected in their average overand underweighting decisions, contains valuable information about future stock returns. Analyzing a comprehensive sample of active U.S. equity funds 1984—2008, we find that stocks heavily overweighted by active funds outperform their underweighted counterparts by more than 7% per year, after adjustments for t...

This paper explores the tail features of daily stock returns. Recently developed versions of the Hill estimator are used to measure the extreme positive and negative returns for a small set of individual daily stocks covering the period of 1926 through 2004. The findings report many of the accepted stylized facts about stock returns. Scaling exponents are reliably near 3, and generally stable o...

Tax-Loss Trading and Wash Sales An analysis of trades in the Finnish stock market around the turn of the year 1994-95, 199596, and 1996-97 shows that Finnish investors tend to realize losses more than gains towards the end of December. They also buy back the same stocks they recently sold, with a repurchase rate that depends on the size of the capital loss and how close the sale is to the end o...

Article history: Received 9 March 2007 Accepted 9 July 2008 Available online 12 October 2008 We examine four European stock indices and the prices of eight major German stocks for indications of psychological barriers. The frequency, (expected) returns, intraday volatility and trading volume of these assets are studied contingent on whether the prices lie within a certain range around round num...

This paper provides new empirical evidence that price-based technical indicator variables can enhance the ability of accounting variables in explaining cross-sectional stock returns. We apply both OLS and state-space modelling to a sample of firms included in the Russell 3000 index over the period from 1999-2012 to compare the roles of the two main types of information typically used by stock i...