The use of messaging boards to instigate coordinated manipulation of stock prices is not a
novel phenomenon. However, the growing breadth and sophistication of social media, the …

In the modern era, one of the fundamental trading components of any country is its stock
market. Generally, it is the benchmark used to gauge the health of the country's economy …

Purpose This study aims to diagnose the global key contributors in the stock market
manipulation studies during the past four decades. Design/methodology/approach The …

We investigate how opening price manipulation influences market behaviors and investors'
returns. Analyzing direct evidence comprising 87 opening price manipulation cases, and …

Stock price manipulation uses illegitimate means to artificially influence market prices of
several stocks. It causes massive losses and undermines investors' confidence and the …

Using social network analysis, we examine China's equity underwriting network in the
context of initial public offerings (IPOs), and we show that network centrality significantly …

Using a large sample of 13,459 initial public offerings (IPOs) from 37 countries, we find that
trading rules on market manipulation reduce IPO underpricing. The effect is weaker for IPOs …

Market manipulation is the act of artificially influencing the price of a security to make profit
through illegitimate schemes. It is evident from the literature that only a handful of methods …

This study empirically investigates the profitability of one of the most widely used trade-
based manipulation tools, namely wash trading. Using a unique account-level data set for …

Stock price manipulation, a major problem in capital markets surveillance, uses illegitimate
means to influence the price of traded stocks in order to reap illicit profit. Most of the existing …