Stock market trading and market conditions
By: John M. Griffin, Federico Nardari, Rene M. Stulz.
Contributors: Nardari, Federico.; Stulz, René M.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 10719; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 10719.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Stock exchanges.; Rate of return.
Description: "This paper investigates the dynamic relation between market-wide trading activity and returns in 46 markets.  Many stock markets exhibit a strong positive relation between turnover and past returns.  These findings stand up in the face of various controls for volatility, alternative definitions for turnover, and differing sample periods, and are present at both the weekly and daily frequency.  However, the magnitude of this relation varies widely across markets.  Several competing explanations are examined by linking cross-country variables to the magnitude of the relation.  The relation between returns and turnover is stronger in countries with restrictions on short sales and where stocks are highly cross-correlated; it is also stronger among individual investors than among foreign or institutional investors.  In developed economies, turnover follows past returns more strongly in the 1980s than in the 1990s.  The evidence is consistent with models of costly stock market participation in which investors infer that their participation is more advantageous following higher stock returns"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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