Price Clustering of Chinese IPOs: The Impact of Regulation,Cultural Factors,and Negotiation

During June 2009–May 2012, the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) suspended window guidance that limits issue prices. Using this regime change as a natural experiment, we test the combined effects of regulation, culture, and negotiation on price clustering of Chinese IPOs. The proportion of IPOs priced on round number 0 increases from 42.58% during sample periods with window guidance to 79.81% during sample period without window guidance, a level similar to that reported in developed markets . Moreover, we document a connection between whole CNY pricing of Chinese IPOs and several uncertainty measures including a unique uncertainty proxy defined as the time gap between the IPO date and the listing date. Second to the round number 0, issuing firms favour number 8 that associates with fortune, particularly during sample periods with window guidance. Our findings that price restrictions limit the power of negotiations but not the influence of cultural factors contributing to the understanding of price formation process.     

汇率与股价关系研究最新进展述评

有关汇率与股价关系的最新研究,归纳起来主要有四个发展方向:一是传统宏观经济一般均衡分析方法的拓展,在以往的开放宏观经济均衡模型中将汇率与股价作为宏观经济中重要的解释变量,强化对客观经济运行的考察;二是具有微观基础的均衡分析,包括资产组合平衡与新开放宏观经济两个分析框架下的汇率与股价关系研究;三是从市场的微观结构理论对汇率与股价这两种资产价格进行模型化;四是影响汇率与股价关系的相关因素的分析。本文按照这四个方面进行文献梳理,并进行简要评述。     

Price clustering and natural resistance points in the Dutch stock market: A natural experiment

This paper focuses on the tendency of stock prices to cluster at round numbers (like 10, 20, 30, etc. and to a lesser extent 5, 15, 25, etc.) and the related effect of round number price barriers (prices pass round numbers less frequently than other numbers). Two competing hypotheses are tested, using data from the Dutch stock market of the period 1990–2001. After 1 January 1999 stock prices were listed in euros, while guilders were still the currency of daily life until 2002. The aspiration level hypothesis predicts that round number effects in guilders will only slowly disappear. The odd price hypothesis predicts an abrupt change in round number effects after 1 January 1999. Generally, the results are consistent with the odd price hypothesis.     

Price limits on a call auction market: Evidence from the Warsaw Stock Exchange

We empirically investigate the impact of price limits on volatility and autocorrelation in the call auction segment of the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE). Because call auctions offer time-out periods to investors, we do not expect price limits to counter overreaction and panic in this market structure. Indeed, our empirical findings show that price limits result in excess volatility on the next trading day and strong continuation of price movements, which indicates that price limits only delay the adjustment of prices to equilibrium levels. Our results question the necessity of price limits in the call auction system of the WSE.     

Price Clustering and Investor Sentiment

Among the anomalous findings in the finance literature, perhaps the most persistent is the finding that security prices tend to cluster on round pricing increments. The author examines how investor sentiment influences the degree of price clustering. Both univariate and multivariate tests show a contemporaneous correlation between price clustering and investor sentiment. Recognizing the need to make stronger causal inferences, the author conducts 2 additional sets of tests. First, the author uses the technology bubble period as natural experiment and examine the price clustering of technology vis-à-vis nontechnology stocks. Results show that price clustering is markedly higher in tech stocks than in nontech stocks during this period of rising, sector-specific, investor sentiment. Second, the author estimates a vector autoregression process and examines the impulse responses of price clustering to exogenous shocks in investor sentiment. The results from these tests indicate that causation flows from sentiment to clustering instead of the other way around.     

Priced on the note: the case of Japanese IPOs

ABSTRACT

This article examines the pricing of Japanese IPOs: 54.26% are priced in 1,000 Japanese yen increments (The Japanese yen (JPY) has denominations of banknotes and coins. Banknotes are in 1,000, 2,000, 5,000, and 10,000-yen. Coins are in 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, and 500-yen. One thousand banknotes are similar to US $10 dollars. Coins are considered as changes in Japan.) (note-ending IPOs), an economically large increment on a per-share basis that is equivalent to 10 US dollar increments assuming an exchange rate of 1 US dollar to 100 Japanese yen. The number of note-ending IPOs increases with price levels and pricing uncertainty, supporting the negotiation hypothesis. Note-ending IPOs are associated with higher volatility, higher underwriters’ fees, wider filing price range, smaller deal size, shorter firm age, and lower underwriter reputation. Price clustering contributes to IPO underpricing. The initial returns are 60.44% higher for note-ending relative to coin-ending IPOs. These results shed light on the pricing of Japanese IPOs due to negotiations and on investment opportunities with note-ending IPOs.     

交易成本对股票价格的影响研究--基于深圳股票市场的经验研究

本文利用Umlauf(1993)方法和事件研究法,研究了证券印花税变化对深市大盘指数以及单只股票的影响,证明了印花税税率下调会提高股票价格指数水平,得到一个显著的正收益率,而上调会降低股票价格指数水平,得到一个显著的负收益率这一结论.表明了印花税可以作为一种调控证券市场的宏观政策工具,并且为这种政策调控提供了一定的数量指导.     

股价同步性与信息效率

本文通过考察股价同步性与信息效率之间的关系,澄清一个近来在金融学术和实务上有些模糊的观点,即经典的CAPM模型所决定的股价同步性,是否意味着企业信息披露更有效？通过比较信息披露指标与同步性测度的回归结果以及进一步根据同步性构造一系列组合收益发现,较低的股价同步性并不意味着更高的信息效率。事实上,较高和较低的股价同步性都意味着比较差的信息披露效率,二者呈现出“倒U”型关系。这为今后的学术研究和实务分析提供了一个新的基础。     

上证180指数的GARCH族模型仿真研究——对上证300指数的间接实证建模分析

本文旨在运用GARCH族模型对即将作为股指期货标的物——上证300指数进行间接实证建模研究。本文使用上证180指数研究上证300指数具有可行性。分析结果表明:上海股市股价波动确实存在显著的GARCH效应和冲击持久效应,并存在较弱的杠杆效应;收益率条件方差序列是平稳的,模型具有可预测性,GARCH-M(1,1)模型可以很好地拟合与预测上证180指数。该仿真模型可以较好地实现点对点的长期高精度预测,克服了传统预测模型只能进行短期预测的缺陷。这不仅对于投资者规避风险,开拓利润空间,而且对于我国资本市场的稳健发展,都具有重要的理论与实践指导意义。     

证券交易机制影响股价吗?——对中国股票市场的再检验

本文在对分别按照开盘价和收盘价计算的两种收益率的比较中发现了极值聚集现象 ,文中将形成这一现象的原因归结于市场中涨跌幅限制的存在 ,并建立了一个简单模型对此进行了说明。其后 ,利用市场中不存在涨跌幅限制时期的数据对该模型进行了验证。在结论部分 ,本文分析了除交易机制外造成两种收益率差异的其他因素 ,并认为有关交易机制对股价行为影响的研究有待深入。     

货币政策能对股价的过度波动做出反应吗?

本文分三种情形讨论货币政策是否能对股价的过度波动做出反应 :( 1 )完美市场中的资产选择模型表明 ,在给定的约束条件下 ,股价没有高估或低估的情况 ,市场完美的调节机制不需要货币政策的干预 ;( 2 )完美市场约束条件修正后的资产选择模型表明 ,在信息费用的约束下 (信息费用是约束条件下的极小化 ) ,一是市场自身有纠错的功能 ,二是央行干预的种种前提不成立。 ( 3 )中国特定约束条件下的资产选择模型表明 ,股市高的预期收益率主要由高的风险报酬和高的交易成本所抵补 ,利率调节对股市上升中的高收益率和下跌中的深度套牢没有任何影响 ,货币政策干预股市过度波动是无效的。     

Stock and Industry Return Characteristics Around Price Shocks

The author investigates positive and negative price shocks in individual securities and the degree to which they affect related firms in the same industry. This price contagion effect is significant with initial price shocks leading to substantial long-term abnormal returns across firms in the same industry over time. Price shocks also have predictive value regarding future earnings and revenues for the firm in question and its industry overall. Positive (negative) price shocks that are continued over time are associated with higher (lower) Sharpe ratios suggesting that abnormal returns are not simply a form of compensation for greater expected future volatility.     

宏观调控下的汇率与股价关系

本文运用协整检验和差分VAR模型研究了我国宏观调控背景下汇率和股价之间的关系.研究发现,人民币升值与股价之间先后经历了显著的正向变动关系与反向变动关系,二者之间不存在协整关系,只在短期内汇率是A股价格波动的Granger原因.宏观调控对利率、对外贸易和资本流动等三大联系渠道产生了重要影响,对于防范金融风险起到了积极作用.     

汇率与股价波动研究——基于中国与日本高频数据的ARCH检验

次贷危机发生前,汇率与股指存在ARCH效应,且均有不对称信息的冲击,波动存在持续性的影响;次贷危机发生后,汇率与股价都不存在ARCH效应,系统性风险和非系统性风险暴露出来使得汇率对股市的波动影响降低,从而促进投资者风险得到有效对坤。     

Price clustering in Australian water markets

The finding of clustering in financial prices on particular digits is common across a broad range of financial markets. This article explores whether price clustering is also present in the case of the weekly market for seasonal water in rural Victoria, Australia. We find a similar degree of clustering in the seasonal water market. This suggests that the trading activities of the market produce characteristics that are similar to more sophisticated and deeper financial markets.     

Price movement and trade size on the National Stock Exchange of India

Using data for the National Stock Exchange of India, we examine three hypotheses about which trades move prices. The Stealth Trading Hypothesis proposes that cumulative price changes (CPCs) are concentrated in particular trade sizes due to the strategic trading of informed traders. We find that depending on market conditions, from 60% to 80% of the CPC is concentrated in small trade sizes, with almost all of the remaining price change concentrated in medium trade sizes. These results support the Stealth Trading Hypothesis.     

分析师利益冲突、乐观偏差与股价崩盘风险

"股价崩盘风险"是当前金融危机背景下财务学的一个研究热点。本文使用2003-2010年中国A股上市公司的数据,研究分析师乐观偏差是否影响上市公司股价崩盘风险,并考察分析师面临的"利益冲突"是否会加剧乐观偏差对股价崩盘风险的影响。研究发现:(1)分析师乐观偏差与上市公司未来股价崩盘风险之间显著正相关,且此关系在"牛市"更为显著;(2)机构投资者持股比例越高,机构投资者数量越多,公司存在再融资行为,以及来自前五大佣金收入券商的分析师比例越高,分析师乐观偏差与崩盘风险之间的正向关系就更为显著,说明"利益冲突"会加剧两者的关系。本文的研究对于全面认识分析师在资本市场中的作用,以及如何降低我国股价崩盘风险、促进股市平稳发展具有重要的理论和现实意义。     

上海证券市场CAPM的实证检验

资本资产定价模型CAPM自诞生以来经历了无数次的检验,早期的实证检验多支持和肯定,后来更多的研究否定了它的有效性,认为β对股票没有解释能力。本分四个时间段对上海证券市场CAPM有效性进行检验,否定了CAPM在前三个时间段的有效笥,不能拒绝其在第四时间段有效。随着时间的推移,非系统风险对股票收益的解释能力越来越弱。     

大宗商品价格变化与汇率波动的动态关系——兼论中国外汇储备结构调整

2008年全球金融危机以来,大宗商品价格变化与一些大宗商品输出国货币汇率的波动态势较为一致。这是偶然巧合还是必然联系?本文利用VEC向量误差修正模型等对相关数据进行了实证分析后表明,2008年以来,大宗商品价格上升对澳大利亚、加拿大等大宗商品输出国货币汇率有正面推动作用。基于此,本文建议:为降低外汇储备风险,中国需要适时增加大宗商品输出国货币和资产在外汇储备中的比重,同时相应减持美元和美元资产。     

Stock Price Index and Exchange Rate Nexus in African Markets

This paper examines the relationship between stock price index and exchange rate in six African markets using monthly data for the period January 2007 to October 2015. A quantile regression approach is used. This methodology is shown to perform better than the ordinary least squares estimators, particularly when the conditional distribution is heterogeneous. Our empirical evidence reveals an interesting pattern in the association of these two financial markets in Africa, which shows that the negative relationship between stock and foreign exchange markets is more apparent when exchange rates are extremely low or high. The negative relationship between the two variables is in line with the portfolio balance effect.