Speculative Trading and Stock Prices: Evidence from Chinese A-B Share Premia

Jianping Mei, Jose Scheinkman and Wei Xiong

No 504, CEMA Working Papers from China Economics and Management Academy, Central University of Finance and Economics

Abstract: The market dynamics of technology stocks in the late 1990s have stimulated a growing body of theory that analyzes the joint effects of short-sales constraints and heterogeneous beliefs on stock prices and trading volume. This paper examines several implications of these theories using a unique data sample from a market with stringent short-sales constraints and perfectly segmented dual-class shares. The identical rights of the dual-class shares allow us to control for stock fundamentals. We find that trading caused by investors¡¯ speculative motives can help explain a significant fraction of the price difference between the dual-class shares.

Keywords: Speculative bubble; Trading volume (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G12 G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2009-11
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Published in Annals of Economics and Finance, Society for AEF, vol. 10(2), pages 225-255, November 2009.

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Journal Article: Speculative Trading and Stock Prices: Evidence from Chinese A-B Share Premia (2009)
Working Paper: Speculative Trading and Stock Prices: Evidence from Chinese A-B Share Premia (2005)
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