Kalok Chan

CUHK Business School

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1.

The Informational Role of Stock and Option Volume

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 26 Jul 1999
Kalok Chan, Y. Peter Chung and Wai Ming Fong
CUHK Business School, University of California at Riverside and The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Department of Finance
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Trade Size, Order Imbalance, and the Volatility-Volume Relation

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 26 Jul 1999
Wai Ming Fong and Kalok Chan
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Department of Finance and CUHK Business School
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Information Asymmetry and Asset Prices: Evidence from the China Foreign Share Discount

Journal of Finance, Vol. 63, 2008
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 03 Aug 2003 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2008
Kalok Chan, Albert J. Menkveld and Zhishu Yang
CUHK Business School, VU Amsterdam and Tsinghua University - School of Economics & Management
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What Determines the Domestic Bias and Foreign Bias? Evidence from Equity Mutual Fund Allocations Worldwide

EFA 2004 Maastricht Meetings Paper No. 2527
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 02 Aug 2004
Vicentiu Covrig, Lilian K. Ng and Kalok Chan
California State University, Northridge - Department of Finance, Financial Planning and Insurance, York University - Schulich School of Business and CUHK Business School
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Mutual Fund Herding and Dispersion of Analysts' Earnings Forecasts

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 02 Mar 2005
Kalok Chan, Chuan-Yang Hwang and G. Mujtaba Mian
CUHK Business School, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Zayed University
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herding, forecast dispersion, mutual funds, analysts

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Stock Price Synchronicity and Analyst Coverage in Emerging Markets

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 04 Feb 2003
Allaudeen Hameed and Kalok Chan
National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Finance and CUHK Business School
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Price Synchronicity, Security Analyst, Emerging Markets

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Stock Price Synchronicity and Liquidity

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 18 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 01 Jan 2013
Kalok Chan, Allaudeen Hameed and Wenjin Kang
CUHK Business School, National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Finance and Renmin University of China - Hanqing Institute
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Liquidity, Price Synchronicity, adverse information risk

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Limit Orders, Depth, and Volatility

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Limit Orders, Depth, and Volatility

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 28 Jul 1999
Hee-Joon Ahn, Kee-Hong Bae and Kalok Chan
Sookmyung Women's University - Division of Business Administration, York University - Schulich School of Business and CUHK Business School
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Limit Orders, Depth, and Volatility

As published in Journal of Finance
Posted: 25 Jan 2001
Kee-Hong Bae, Hee-Joon Ahn and Kalok Chan
York University - Schulich School of Business, Sookmyung Women's University - Division of Business Administration and CUHK Business School

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Cross-Sectional Stock Return Predictability in China

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 11 Apr 2012
Nusret Cakici, Kalok Chan and Kudret Topyan
Fordham University, CUHK Business School and Manhattan College - Department of Economics and Finance
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Chinese stock returns, Stock return predictors, Momentum, Stock Cheapness

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Effects of Short-Sale Constraints on Stock Prices and Trading Activity: Evidence from Hong Kong and Mainland China

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 16 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2010
Kalok Chan, Hung Wan Kot and Zhishu Yang
CUHK Business School, University of Macau - Department of Finance and Business Economics and Tsinghua University - School of Economics & Management
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Short-sale constraints, overvaluation, trading activity, Hong Kong market, China A-share market

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The Informativeness of Domestic and Foreign Investors' Stock Trades: Evidence from the Perfectly Segmented Chinese Market

Journal of Financial Markets, Vol. 10, No. 4, 2007
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 06 Aug 2003 Last Revised: 14 Jun 2008
Kalok Chan, Albert J. Menkveld and Zhishu Yang
CUHK Business School, VU Amsterdam and Tsinghua University - School of Economics & Management
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When the Tail Wags the Dog: Industry Leaders, Limited Attention and Spurious Cross-Industry Information Diffusion

The Management Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 23 Feb 2007 Last Revised: 17 May 2013
Ling Cen, Kalok Chan, Sudipto Dasgupta and Ning Gao
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, CUHK Business School, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Lancaster University, and CEPR and Manchester Accounting and Finance Group, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester
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Category Learning, Industry Information Diffusion

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Investibility and Return Volatility in Emerging Equity Markets

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 25 Jul 2003
Kee-Hong Bae, Kalok Chan and Angela Ng
York University - Schulich School of Business, CUHK Business School and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Department of Finance
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What If Trading Location is Different from Business Location? Evidence from the Jardine Group

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What If Trading Location is Different from Business Location? Evidence from the Jardine Group

AFA 2002 Atlanta Meetings
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 10 Dec 2001
Kalok Chan, Allaudeen Hameed and Sie Ting Lau
CUHK Business School, National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Finance and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) - Division of Banking & Finance
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What If Trading Location is Different from Business Location? Evidence from the Jardine Group

Journal of Finance, Vol. 58, pp. 1221-1246, June 2003
Posted: 06 Aug 2003
Kalok Chan, Allaudeen Hameed and Sie Ting Lau
CUHK Business School, National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Finance and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) - Division of Banking & Finance

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Does Home Bias Affect Firm Value? Evidence from Holdings of Mutual Funds Worldwide

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 31 Mar 2007
Lilian K. Ng, Kalok Chan and Vicentiu Covrig
York University - Schulich School of Business, CUHK Business School and California State University, Northridge - Department of Finance, Financial Planning and Insurance
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Home Bias, Mutual Funds, Cost of Capital, Firm Value, Risk Sharing

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Why Investors do not Buy Cheaper Securities? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Journal of Banking and Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 18 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 08 Feb 2019
Kalok Chan, Baolian Wang and Zhishu Yang
CUHK Business School, University of Florida - Department of Finance, Insurance and Real Estate and Tsinghua University - School of Economics & Management
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A/B share prices, portfolio inertia, trading experience, trading performance

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Why Foreign Investors Trade More Frequently?

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 17 Mar 2008
Kalok Chan and Vicentiu Covrig
CUHK Business School and California State University, Northridge - Department of Finance, Financial Planning and Insurance
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Foreign turnover, Mutual Funds, Information Disclosure, Familiarity

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Do Behavioral Biases Affect Order Aggressiveness?

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Do Behavioral Biases Affect Order Aggressiveness?

Asian Finance Association (AsianFA) 2015 Conference Paper, PBCSF-NIFR Research Paper No. 13-01
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 19 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 15 Sep 2018
Jiangze Bian, Kalok Chan, Donghui Shi and Hao Zhou
University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), CUHK Business School, Shanghai Stock Exchange and Tsinghua University - PBC School of Finance
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Order submission, Order aggressiveness, Disposition effect

Do Behavioral Biases Affect Order Aggressiveness?

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 03 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2017
Jiangze Bian, Kalok Chan, Donghui Shi and Hao Zhou
University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), CUHK Business School, Shanghai Stock Exchange and Tsinghua University - PBC School of Finance
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Order submission, Order aggressiveness, Disposition effect

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Does Option Trading Affect the Return Predictability of Short Selling Activity?

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 09 May 2014 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2016
Kalok Chan, Hung Wan Kot and Sophie Xiaoyan Ni
CUHK Business School, University of Macau - Department of Finance and Business Economics and Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)
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Short Sale Constraints, Behavioral, Market Efficiency, Options

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A Retrospective Evaluation of the Pacific-Basin Finance Journal: 1993-2002

Dice Center Working Paper No. 2002-9
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 22 Nov 2003
Kalok Chan, George Andrew Karolyi and S. Ghon Rhee
CUHK Business School, Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and University of Hawaii - Shidler College of Business
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A Comprehensive Long-Term Analysis of S&P 500 Index Additions and Deletions

Journal of Banking and Finance, Vol. 37, 2013
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 15 Nov 2015
Kalok Chan, Hung Wan Kot and Gordon Y. N. Tang
CUHK Business School, University of Macau - Department of Finance and Business Economics and Hong Kong Baptist University
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S&P 500 Index Revision, Long-run Performance, Operating Performance, Information Quality, Liquidity

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What Determines Mutual Funds' Trading in Foreign Stocks?

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 18 Mar 2009
Kalok Chan and Vicentiu Covrig
CUHK Business School and California State University, Northridge - Department of Finance, Financial Planning and Insurance
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Churn Rate, Turnover, Mutual Funds, Trading, Information Disclosure, Familiarity

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All are Smart: Do Short Sellers Convey More Information than Option Investors?

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 18 Mar 2011
Kalok Chan, Hung Wan Kot and Sophie Xiaoyan Ni
CUHK Business School, University of Macau - Department of Finance and Business Economics and Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)
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Short Sale Constraints, Price Discovery, Options, Derivatives

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Idiosyncratic Skewness Preference or Measurement Error? Evidence from the Options Market

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 12 May 2018
Kalok Chan and Sophie Xiaoyan Ni
CUHK Business School and Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)
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Options, Skewness Seeking, Measure Error

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Conditional Co-Skewness and Safe-Haven Currencies: A Regime Switching Approach

Journal of Empirical Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 27 Jun 2018
Kalok Chan, Jian Yang and Yinggang Zhou
CUHK Business School, University of Colorado at Denver - Business School and Department of Finance at School of Economics (SOE), and Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE), Xiamen University
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currency hedging; safe-haven currencies; conditional co-skewness; regime switching; international asset pricing

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Investor Participation and the Volatility-Volume Relation

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 19 Dec 2018
Jiangze Bian, Kalok Chan and Wai Ming Fong
University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), CUHK Business School and The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Department of Finance
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Ownership Breadth, Volatility-Volume Relation

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The Relationship between Commodity Price and Currency Exchange Rate: Evidence from the Futures Markets

Commodity Prices and Markets, East Asia Seminar on Economics, Volume 20, pp. 47-71, 2011
Posted: 07 Apr 2016
Kalok Chan, Yiuman Tse and Michael Williams
CUHK Business School, University of Missouri at Saint Louis and Governors State University

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currency and commodity futures markets

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Can Contrarian Strategies Improve Momentum Profits

Journal of Investment Management, Vol. 4, No. 1, First Quarter 2006
Posted: 22 Apr 2006
Hung Wan Kot and Kalok Chan
University of Macau - Department of Finance and Business Economics and CUHK Business School

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Price reversal, momentum strategies

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What Determines the Domestic Bias and Foreign Bias? Evidence from Mutual Fund Equity Allocations Worldwide

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Posted: 13 Aug 2004
Vicentiu Covrig, Kalok Chan and Lilian K. Ng
California State University, Northridge - Department of Finance, Financial Planning and Insurance, CUHK Business School and York University - Schulich School of Business

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Home bias, mutual funds, institutional investors, diversification

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Free Float and Market Liquidity: A Study of Hong Kong Government Intervention

Journal of Financial Research, Forthcoming
Posted: 08 Mar 2004
Kalok Chan, Yue-Cheong Chan and Wai Ming Fong
CUHK Business School, Hong Kong Polytechnic University - School of Accounting and Finance and The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Department of Finance

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Profitability of Momentum Strategies in the International Equity Markets

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 35, No. 2, June 2000
Posted: 14 Sep 2000
Kalok Chan, Allaudeen Hameed and Wilson H.S. Tong
CUHK Business School, National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Finance and Hong Kong Polytechnic University - School of Accounting and Finance

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Return Volatility, Cross-Sectional Dispersion, and Trading Activity in the Equity and Futures Markets

Posted: 14 Sep 1999
Hendrik Bessembinder, Kalok Chan and Paul J. Seguin
Arizona State University, CUHK Business School and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management

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Do the Profits from Technical Trading Rules Reflect Inefficiencies?

Posted: 10 Oct 1998
Hendrik Bessembinder and Kalok Chan
Arizona State University and CUHK Business School

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The Intraday Behavior of Bid-Ask Spreads for NYSE Stocks and Cboe Options

JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL AND QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS, September 1995
Posted: 25 Aug 1998
Kalok Chan, Y. Peter Chung and Herb Johnson
CUHK Business School, University of California at Riverside and University of California, Riverside (UCR) - Department of Finance and Management Science

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Market Efficiency and the Returns to Technical Analysis

Financial Management, Vol 27, No 2
Posted: 21 Aug 1998
Hendrik Bessembinder and Kalok Chan
Arizona State University and CUHK Business School

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Bid-Ask Spread and Arbitrage Profitability: A Study of the Hong Kong Index Futures and Options Market

Posted: 12 Dec 1996
Kee-Hong Bae, Kalok Chan and Stephen Yan-Leung Cheung
York University - Schulich School of Business, CUHK Business School and City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) - Department of Economics & Finance

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Stock Price Synchronicity and Liquidity

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 13 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 08 Feb 2009
Wenjin Kang, Kalok Chan and Allaudeen Hameed
Renmin University of China - Hanqing Institute, CUHK Business School and National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Finance
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Price Synchronicity, Liquidity