Two essays on stock liquidity
| dc.contributor.advisor | Titman, Sheridan | en |
| dc.creator | Liu, Shuming, doctor of finance | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-09-18T20:04:43Z | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-11T22:27:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-09-18T20:04:43Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2017-05-11T22:27:26Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008-08 | en |
| dc.description | text | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This dissertation consists of two empirical essays on investor behavior and liquidity variation. The results demonstrate the important role of investors in affecting liquidity. The first essay examines how the fluctuation in the aggregate stock market liquidity is related to investor sentiment. I find that the stock market is more liquid when investor sentiment is higher. This evidence is consistent with the theoretical prediction that higher investor sentiment increases stock market liquidity. The second essay investigates whether the cross-sectional differences in liquidity are affected by institutional ownership. I document that stocks with larger increases in the number of institutional investors are more liquid than other stocks. This result is consistent with the prediction that information competition among institutional investors increases stock liquidity. | en |
| dc.description.department | Finance | en |
| dc.format.medium | electronic | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/17935 | en |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en |
| dc.rights | Copyright is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works. | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Liquidity (Economics) | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Stockholders--Attitudes | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Institutional investors | en |
| dc.title | Two essays on stock liquidity | en |