Market Behaviour of Foreign Versus Domestic Investors Following a Period of Stressful Circumstances

45 Pages Posted: 22 Mar 2007

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Meziane Lasfer

Bayes Business School, City, University of London

Sharon Lin

City University London - The Business School

Yaz Gulnur Muradoglu

City University London - The Business School; Queen Mary University of London

Date Written: March 15, 2007

Abstract

In this paper we analyse the short-term stock price behaviour following a period of large stock price changes. We compare the price behaviour of A shares owned by domestic investors and B shares owned by foreign investors in the two Chinese markets, Shanghai and Shenzhen. We find significant differences across the two types of shares. We show that, while the prices of the A shares are relatively random in the short-term window (up to 10 days) after the price shock, those of the B shares carry on increasing significantly after both the positive and negative shocks. This trend is more pronounced for large shares with high liquidity, in contrast to the efficient market hypotheses expectations, which suggests that any abnormal performance should be arbitraged away sooner in a frictionless (in this case liquid) market. In the post-2001 period when the B shares are open to domestic investors, we find a significant drop in the post-shock abnormal returns in B shares. We relate these results to the high level of optimism of foreign investors.

Keywords: Efficient Markets, Market Stress, Overreaction, Momentum, Optimism

JEL Classification: G1, F3

Suggested Citation

Lasfer, Meziane and Lin, Sharon and Muradoglu, Yaz Gulnur and Muradoglu, Yaz Gulnur, Market Behaviour of Foreign Versus Domestic Investors Following a Period of Stressful Circumstances (March 15, 2007). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=971993 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.971993

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Sharon Lin

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