Margin Rules and Margin Trading: Past, Present, and Implications

Z Chen, Z He, W Wei - Annual Review of Financial Economics, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Margin—collateral or funds that investors deposit with their counterparties—is a crucial
component of the practice of borrowing money to fund investment. While margin offers the …

Government stock purchase undermines price informativeness: Evidence from china's “national team”

TV Dang, W Li, Y Wang - Journal of Financial and Quantitative …, 2024 - cambridge.org
We use the 2015 Chinese stock market crash to study the effects of government stock
purchases. The Chinese government purchased stocks to stabilize the markets through state …

Leverage Is a Double‐Edged Sword

A Subrahmanyam, K Tang, J Wang… - The Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We use proprietary data on intraday transactions at a futures brokerage to analyze how
implied leverage influences trading performance. Across all investors, leverage is negatively …

Can stock trading suspension calm down investors during market crises?

W Chen, J Huang, D Shi, Z Song - Journal of Financial Markets, 2024 - Elsevier
We examine the trading behavior of investors facing a large number of firm-initiated stock
trading suspension events during the Chinese stock market crisis in July 2015. Using …

Margin trading, short selling, and information asymmetry

M Xu, X Zhang, Y Zhang - Journal of Financial Markets, 2024 - Elsevier
We investigate the impact of margin trading and short selling (MTSS) on information
asymmetry using data from a unique Chinese pilot program that permits MTSS for a specific …