Information Flow, Volatility and Spreads of Infreuently Traded Nasdaq Stocks

This paper examines the information flow, return volatility, and trading costs of infrequently traded stocks. A mixture-of-distribution model is employed to decompose volume into informed and liquidity components. It is found that the intensity of informed trading is higher for infrequently traded s...

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Main Author: WU, Chunchi
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spelling sg-smu-ink.lkcsb_research-18272010-09-23T06:24:04Z Information Flow, Volatility and Spreads of Infreuently Traded Nasdaq Stocks WU, Chunchi This paper examines the information flow, return volatility, and trading costs of infrequently traded stocks. A mixture-of-distribution model is employed to decompose volume into informed and liquidity components. It is found that the intensity of informed trading is higher for infrequently traded stocks. This higher intensity of informed trading causes larger spreads. The positive volatility–volume relationship is much stronger when informed volume replaces raw volume in the volatility regression. A striking negative relationship between volatility and liquidity volume is uncovered. Finally, prices of infrequently traded stocks are more sensitive to informed trading than those of frequently traded stocks. [Copyright 2004 Elsevier] 2004-01-01T08:00:00Z text https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/828 info:doi/10.1016/s1062-9769(03)00031-0 Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Business
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Information Flow, Volatility and Spreads of Infreuently Traded Nasdaq Stocks
description This paper examines the information flow, return volatility, and trading costs of infrequently traded stocks. A mixture-of-distribution model is employed to decompose volume into informed and liquidity components. It is found that the intensity of informed trading is higher for infrequently traded stocks. This higher intensity of informed trading causes larger spreads. The positive volatility–volume relationship is much stronger when informed volume replaces raw volume in the volatility regression. A striking negative relationship between volatility and liquidity volume is uncovered. Finally, prices of infrequently traded stocks are more sensitive to informed trading than those of frequently traded stocks. [Copyright 2004 Elsevier]
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author WU, Chunchi
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title Information Flow, Volatility and Spreads of Infreuently Traded Nasdaq Stocks
title_short Information Flow, Volatility and Spreads of Infreuently Traded Nasdaq Stocks
title_full Information Flow, Volatility and Spreads of Infreuently Traded Nasdaq Stocks
title_fullStr Information Flow, Volatility and Spreads of Infreuently Traded Nasdaq Stocks
title_full_unstemmed Information Flow, Volatility and Spreads of Infreuently Traded Nasdaq Stocks
title_sort information flow, volatility and spreads of infreuently traded nasdaq stocks
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2004
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/828
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