TY  - JOUR
T1  - The Effect of Price Limits on Intraday Volatility and Information Asymmetry
JF  - Pacific-Basin Finance Journal
Y1  - 2008
A1  - Kim,Yong H.
A1  - Yang,Jimmy
KW  - Finance
AB  - We investigate the effect of price limits on intra-day volatility and information asymmetry using transactions data from the Taiwan Stock Exchange. Proponents of price limits argue that they provide an opportunity for investors to reevaluate market information and make more rational trading decisions. We identify three different limit hits – closing, single, and consecutive – and hypothesize that only the consecutive limit hits are likely to provide such an opportunity, namely, to counter investor overreaction (volatility hypothesis) and to enhance information revelation (information asymmetry hypothesis). Our empirical evidence supports the volatility hypothesis. Our findings generate important policy implications for stock markets that have price limits.
VL  - 16
CP  - 5
U2  - a
U4  - 6360668161
ID  - 6360668161
ER  -