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Investor heterogeneity and momentum-based trading strategies in China (2020)
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Gao, Y., Han, X., Li, Y., & Xiong, X. (2021). Investor heterogeneity and momentum-based trading strategies in China. International review of financial analysis, 74, Article 101654. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2020.101654

The conventional momentum strategy performs poorly overall in China, because stock prices behave very differently when markets are open for trading versus when they are closed. Stocks that are past intraday (overnight) winners persistently outperform... Read More about Investor heterogeneity and momentum-based trading strategies in China.

Should a retailer sell its own extended warranties or resell those from the manufacturer when confronting supplier encroachment? (2020)
Journal Article
Chai, J., Li, H., Yan, W., & Li, Y. (2021). Should a retailer sell its own extended warranties or resell those from the manufacturer when confronting supplier encroachment?. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 72(9), 2046-2058. https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2020.1759383

Due to fierce competition in the product market under conditions of supplier encroachment, many brand name retailers, including Sears, Best Buy, and Circuit City, depend on the extended warranty contracts that they sell along with the products. The d... Read More about Should a retailer sell its own extended warranties or resell those from the manufacturer when confronting supplier encroachment?.

Investor Overconfidence and the Security Market Line: New Evidence from China (2020)
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Han, X., Li, K., & Li, Y. (2020). Investor Overconfidence and the Security Market Line: New Evidence from China. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 117, Article 103961. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jedc.2020.103961

This paper documents a highly downward-sloping security market line (SML) in China, which is more puzzling than the typical “flattened” SML in the US, and does not reconcile with existing theories of the low-beta anomaly. We show that investor overco... Read More about Investor Overconfidence and the Security Market Line: New Evidence from China.

Asymmetric volatility spillovers between economic policy uncertainty and stock markets: Evidence from China (2020)
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Wang, Z., Li, Y., & He, F. (2020). Asymmetric volatility spillovers between economic policy uncertainty and stock markets: Evidence from China. Research in international business and finance, 53, Article 101233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2020.101233

This study explores the spillovers between economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and stock market realized volatility (RV). The monthly index of Chinese and US EPU and RV are used to analyze the pairwise directional spillovers. We find that RV is a net r... Read More about Asymmetric volatility spillovers between economic policy uncertainty and stock markets: Evidence from China.

How did order-flow impact bond prices during the European Sovereign Debt Crisis? (2019)
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Lin, Z., Hamill, P. A., Li, Y., Sun, Z., & Waterworth, J. (2020). How did order-flow impact bond prices during the European Sovereign Debt Crisis?. International Review of Economics and Finance, 67, 13-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2019.12.008

The impact of trades on price dynamics in the European sovereign debt markets is of significant importance to policy makers and market participants. This paper uses high-frequency quote and transaction data from the MTS European sovereign bond inter-... Read More about How did order-flow impact bond prices during the European Sovereign Debt Crisis?.

Social media effect, investor recognition and the cross-section of stock returns (2019)
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Meng, X., Zhang, W., Li, Y., Cao, X., & Feng, X. (2020). Social media effect, investor recognition and the cross-section of stock returns. International review of financial analysis, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2019.101432

Investor recognition affects cross-sectional stock returns. In informationally incomplete markets, investors have limited recognition of all securities, and their holding of stocks with low recognition requires compensation for being imperfectly dive... Read More about Social media effect, investor recognition and the cross-section of stock returns.

Intraday time-series momentum: Evidence from China (2019)
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Jin, M., Kearney, F., Li, Y., & Yang, Y. C. (in press). Intraday time-series momentum: Evidence from China. Journal of Futures Markets, https://doi.org/10.1002/fut.22084

This study conducts an investigation of intraday time‐series momentum across four Chinese commodity futures contracts: copper, steel, soybean, and soybean meal. Our results indicate that the first half‐hour return positively predicts the last half‐ho... Read More about Intraday time-series momentum: Evidence from China.

Overnight momentum, informational shocks, and late informed trading in China (2019)
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Gao, Y., Han, X., Li, Y., & Xiong, X. (2019). Overnight momentum, informational shocks, and late informed trading in China. International review of financial analysis, 66, 101394. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2019.101394

Based on high-frequency firm-level data, this paper uncovers new empirical patterns on intraday momentum in China. First, there exists a strong intraday momentum effect at the firm level. Second, the intraday predictability stems mainly from the over... Read More about Overnight momentum, informational shocks, and late informed trading in China.

Selling vertically differentiated products under one channel or two? A quality segmentation model for differentiated distribution channels (2019)
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Chai, J., Yan, W., Li, Y., Palmer, M., & Huang, Q. (2019). Selling vertically differentiated products under one channel or two? A quality segmentation model for differentiated distribution channels. Journal of the Operational Research Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2019.1605469

Many manufacturers, including Lenovo, Sony, Procter & Gamble, and Buckle, have adopted differentiated distribution channels to market vertically differentiated products. However, there is scant literature addressing the issue of quality differentiati... Read More about Selling vertically differentiated products under one channel or two? A quality segmentation model for differentiated distribution channels.

Bottom-up sentiment and return predictability of the market portfolio (2019)
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Guo, J., Li, Y., & Zheng, M. (2019). Bottom-up sentiment and return predictability of the market portfolio. Finance research letters, 29, 57-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2019.03.008

This paper provides strong evidence that market sentiment measured bottom-up from individual-stock sentiment is negatively related to future long-term market returns and is positively correlated with contemporaneous returns.

Heterogeneous agent models in financial markets: A nonlinear dynamics approach (2018)
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He, X. Z., Li, Y., & Zheng, M. (2019). Heterogeneous agent models in financial markets: A nonlinear dynamics approach. International review of financial analysis, 62, 135-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2018.11.016

Studies on financial markets have accumulated consistent evidences of stylized facts and anomalies, which can be characterized by stochastic switching among different co-existing market states but yet difficult to reconcile with traditionally rationa... Read More about Heterogeneous agent models in financial markets: A nonlinear dynamics approach.

A new attention proxy and order imbalance: Evidence from China (2018)
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Gao, Y., Xiong, X., Feng, X., Li, Y., & Vigne, S. A. (2019). A new attention proxy and order imbalance: Evidence from China. Finance research letters, 29, 411-417. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2018.11.009

In this paper, we propose a new direct proxy for investors' attention in the Chinese stock market: daily abnormal reading quantity of each stock's posts on the Eastmoney guba website. Using A-shares samples of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, we find tha... Read More about A new attention proxy and order imbalance: Evidence from China.

Sustainable decisions on product upgrade confrontations with remanufacturing operations (2018)
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Sun, L., Zhang, L., & Li, Y. (2018). Sustainable decisions on product upgrade confrontations with remanufacturing operations. Sustainability, 10(11), Article 4090. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10114090

In recent decades, remanufacturing is perceived to be an environmentally friendly option due to the reduced consumption of materials, energy etc. It should be noted that whether the remanufacturing operations are undertaken by the original equipment... Read More about Sustainable decisions on product upgrade confrontations with remanufacturing operations.

Price discovery in the Chinese gold market (2018)
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Jin, M., Li, Y., Wang, J., & Yang, Y. C. (2018). Price discovery in the Chinese gold market. Journal of Futures Markets, 38(10), 1262-1281. https://doi.org/10.1002/fut.21938

This study conducts price discovery analysis in the Chinese gold market. Our results indicate that Chinese gold market price discovery occurs predominantly in the futures market. The result is robust to numerous different measures of price discovery,... Read More about Price discovery in the Chinese gold market.

Long memory in financial markets: A heterogeneous agent model perspective (2018)
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Zheng, M., Liu, R., & Li, Y. (2018). Long memory in financial markets: A heterogeneous agent model perspective. International review of financial analysis, 58, 38-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2018.04.001

During last decades, studies on asset pricing models witnessed a paradigm shift from rational expectation and representative agent to an alternative, behavioral view, where agents are heterogeneous and boundedly rational. In this paper, we model the... Read More about Long memory in financial markets: A heterogeneous agent model perspective.

Did long-memory of liquidity signal the European sovereign debt crisis? (2018)
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Sun, Z., Hamill, P. A., Li, Y., Yang, Y. C., & Vigne, S. A. (2019). Did long-memory of liquidity signal the European sovereign debt crisis?. Annals of Operations Research, 282(1-2), 355-377. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-018-2850-y

This paper analyses high frequency MTS data to comprehensively evaluate the liquidity of the European sovereign bond markets before and during the European sovereign debt crisis for eleven countries. The Hill index, Generalized Hurst exponent and Dyn... Read More about Did long-memory of liquidity signal the European sovereign debt crisis?.

An analysis of liquidity skewness for European sovereign bond markets (2018)
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Yan, W., Hamill, P., Li, Y., Vigne, S. A., & Waterworth, J. (2018). An analysis of liquidity skewness for European sovereign bond markets. Finance research letters, 26, 274-280. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2018.02.027

We examine liquidity skewness by providing an analysis of bid-ask spreads for a comprehensive high-frequency dataset comprising Eurozone countries’ sovereign bonds. European sovereign bond markets exhibited increasing positive skewness over the sampl... Read More about An analysis of liquidity skewness for European sovereign bond markets.

Asset allocation with time series momentum and reversal (2018)
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He, X., Li, K., & Li, Y. (2018). Asset allocation with time series momentum and reversal. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 91, 441-457. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jedc.2018.02.004

To capture the well documented time series momentum and reversal in asset price, we develop a continuous-time asset price model, derive the optimal investment strategy theoretically, and test the strategy empirically. We show that, by combining marke... Read More about Asset allocation with time series momentum and reversal.

Risk adjusted momentum strategies: A comparison between constant and dynamic volatility scaling approaches (2018)
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Fan, M., Li, Y., & Liu, J. (2018). Risk adjusted momentum strategies: A comparison between constant and dynamic volatility scaling approaches. Research in international business and finance, 46, 131-140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2017.12.004

We compare the performance of two volatility scaling methods in momentum strategies: (i) the constant volatility scaling approach of Barroso and Santa-Clara (2015), and (ii) the dynamic volatility scaling method of Daniel and Moskowitz (2016). We per... Read More about Risk adjusted momentum strategies: A comparison between constant and dynamic volatility scaling approaches.

Liquidity skewness in the London Stock Exchange (2017)
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Hsieh, T. H., Li, Y., McKillop, D. G., & Wu, Y. (2018). Liquidity skewness in the London Stock Exchange. International review of financial analysis, 56, 12-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2017.12.006

We study liquidity on the London Stock Exchange. We find that the average bid-ask spread declines, but that the skewness of the spread increases. These results are robust to firm size, trading volume and price level. Our findings hold when the bid-as... Read More about Liquidity skewness in the London Stock Exchange.