All Outputs (4)

Liquidity skewness in the London Stock Exchange (2017)
Journal Article
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.

The adaptiveness in stock markets: testing the stylized facts in the DAX 30 (2017)
Journal Article
He, X. Z., & Li, Y. (2017). The adaptiveness in stock markets: testing the stylized facts in the DAX 30. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 27(5), 1071-1094. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-017-0505-9

By testing a simple asset pricing model of heterogeneous agents to characterize the power-law behavior of the DAX 30 from 1975 to 2007, we provide supporting evidence on empirical findings that investors and fund managers use combinations of fixed an... Read More about The adaptiveness in stock markets: testing the stylized facts in the DAX 30.

Can investor sentiment be a momentum time-series predictor? Evidence from China (2017)
Journal Article
Han, X., & Li, Y. (2017). Can investor sentiment be a momentum time-series predictor? Evidence from China. Journal of Empirical Finance, 42, 212-239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jempfin.2017.04.001

This paper challenges the prevailing view that investor sentiment is a contrarian predictor of market returns at nearly all horizons. As an important piece of "out-of-sample" evidence, we document that investor sentiment in China is a reliable moment... Read More about Can investor sentiment be a momentum time-series predictor? Evidence from China.

Models of mortality rates–analysing the residuals (2017)
Journal Article
O’hare, C., & Li, Y. (2017). Models of mortality rates–analysing the residuals. Applied economics, 49(52), 5309-5323. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2017.1305092

The area of mortality modelling has received significant attention over the last 25 years owing to the need to quantify and forecast improving mortality rates. This need is driven primarily by the concern of governments, insurance and actuarial profe... Read More about Models of mortality rates–analysing the residuals.