Kumar Venkataraman

Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department

James M. Collins Chair in Finance

United States

http://people.smu.edu/kumar/

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Scholarly Papers (24)

Does Earnings Quality Affect Information Asymmetry? Evidence from Trading Costs

Contemporary Accounting Research, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2013
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 15 Feb 2007 Last Revised: 03 Jul 2013
Neil Bhattacharya, Hemang Desai and Kumar Venkataraman
Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Accounting Department, Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Accounting Department and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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Earnings Quality, Information Asymmetry, Liqudity, Cost of Capital

Earnings Quality and Information Asymmetry: Evidence from Trading Costs

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 11 Sep 2008
Neil Bhattacharya, Hemang Desai and Kumar Venkataraman
Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Accounting Department, Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Accounting Department and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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Earnings quality, information asymmetry, transactions costs, cost of capital

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Capital Commitment and Illiquidity in Corporate Bonds

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 22 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 29 Aug 2017
W.P. Carey School of Business, Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department, Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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Capital commitment, corporate bonds, dealer behavior, Dodd-Frank Act, financial crisis, liquidity, microstructure, transparency, TRACE, transaction costs

Market Transparency, Liquidity Externalities, and Institutional Trading Costs in Corporate Bonds

AFA 2006 Boston Meetings, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 08 Jan 2005
Hendrik Bessembinder, William F. Maxwell and Kumar Venkataraman
W.P. Carey School of Business, Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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transparency, corporate bonds, trace, microstructure,

Market Transparency, Liquidity Externalities, and Institutional Trading Costs in Corporate Bonds

Journal of Financial Economics, Forthcoming
Posted: 02 Nov 2005
Hendrik Bessembinder, William F. Maxwell and Kumar Venkataraman
W.P. Carey School of Business, Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department

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Bonds, microstructure, transparency, liquidity externalities

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Performance of Institutional Trading Desks: An Analysis of Persistence in Trading Cost

Review of Financial Studies, 2012, Vol. 2 (25), 557-598.
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 23 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 03 Jul 2013
Amber Anand, Paul J. Irvine, Andy Puckett and Kumar Venkataraman
Syracuse University - Whitman School of Management, Neeley School of Business, University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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Citation 60

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Trading cost, Buy-side Institution, Trading Performance, Broker, Mutual Fund, Alpha

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Hidden Liquidity: An Analysis of Order Exposure Strategies in Electronic Stock Markets

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 13 Jan 2007 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2009
W.P. Carey School of Business, University of Cyprus - Department of Accounting and Finance and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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Hidden Order, Order Exposure, Limit Order Book, Iceberg Order, Electronic Exchange

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Mutual Fund Trading Style and Bond Market Fragility

Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 19 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 08 Jun 2020
Amber Anand, Chotibhak Jotikasthira and Kumar Venkataraman
Syracuse University - Whitman School of Management, Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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Corporate bonds; dealers; mutual funds; fragility; liquidity; performance

The Impact of Regulation Fair Disclosure: Trading Costs and Information Asymmetry

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 05 Oct 2001
Kumar Venkataraman, Rex Thompson and Venkat Eleswarapu
Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Chicago Equity Partners
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Regulation Fair Disclosure, Reg. FD, Trading Costs, Information Asymmetry, SEC

The Impact of Regulation Fair Disclosure: Trading Costs and Information Asymmetry

Posted: 01 Apr 2003
Venkat Eleswarapu, Rex Thompson and Kumar Venkataraman
Chicago Equity Partners, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department

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Trading Costs, Information Asymmetry, Regulation Fair Disclosure, Return Volatility

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A Survey of the Microstructure of Fixed-Income Markets

Forthcoming, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 08 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2019
Hendrik Bessembinder, Chester S. Spatt and Kumar Venkataraman
W.P. Carey School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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Citation 11

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bond market; dealer networks; trading costs; market making; transparency

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Do Short Sellers Target Firms with Poor Earnings Quality? Evidence from Earnings Restatements

Review of Accounting Studies (2006) 11:71-90
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 25 Dec 2004 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2021
Hemang Desai, Srinivasan Krishnamurthy and Kumar Venkataraman
Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Accounting Department, North Carolina State University - Poole College of Management and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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Citation 71

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Short sellers, Accruals, Earnings quality, Earnings restatements

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Automated Versus Floor Trading: An Analysis of Execution Costs on the Paris and New York Exchanges

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 17 Oct 2000
Kumar Venkataraman
Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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Bid-ask spreads, stock markets, auction trading, electronic trading, ECNs

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Liquidity, Resiliency and Market Quality Around Predictable Trades: Theory and Evidence

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 23 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 21 Oct 2015
W.P. Carey School of Business, University of Memphis - Fogelman College of Business and Economics, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission - Division of Economic and Risk Analysis and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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predatory trading, sunshine trading, trading costs, resiliency, ETFs, crude oil, energy, commodities, futures

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Institutional Trading and Stock Resiliency: Evidence from the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 108, No. 3, 2013
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 18 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 03 Jul 2013
Amber Anand, Andy Puckett, Paul J. Irvine and Kumar Venkataraman
Syracuse University - Whitman School of Management, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Neeley School of Business and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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Citation 70

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Financial crisis, liquidity, trading cost, institutional trading, funding liquidity

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The Value of the Designated Market Maker

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 15 Feb 2006
Kumar Venkataraman and Andy Waisburd
Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department and Texas Christian University - Department of Finance
Downloads 406 (125,086)
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Market Maker, Specialist, Exchange, Limit Order Book

The Value of the Designated Market Maker

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 19 May 2005
Kumar Venkataraman and Andy Waisburd
Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department and Texas Christian University - Department of Finance
Downloads 237 (221,578)
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Specialist, dealer, electronic exchange, liquidity

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Trading Activity and Transaction Costs in Structured Credit Products

Financial Analysts Journal, Vol. 69, No. 6, 2013
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 26 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2014
Hendrik Bessembinder, William F. Maxwell and Kumar Venkataraman
W.P. Carey School of Business, Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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ABS, MBS, Structured Products, Transparency, mortgage-backed, asset-backed

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Market Conditions, Fragility and the Economics of Market Making

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 21 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 13 Aug 2015
Amber Anand and Kumar Venkataraman
Syracuse University - Whitman School of Management and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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Market Makers; HFTs; Fragility; Volatility; Obligations

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Informed Trading and Price Discovery before Corporate Events

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 03 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 19 Aug 2016
University of Rome Tor Vergata, Department of Economics and Finance, University of Cyprus - Department of Accounting and Finance and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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Informed trader; insider trading; trading strategy; short sale; buy-sell asymmetry

Does an Electronic Stock Exchange Need an Upstairs Market?

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 14 Jan 2002
Kumar Venkataraman and Hendrik Bessembinder
Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department and W.P. Carey School of Business
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Upstairs market, Limit order book, Electronic exchange, Crossing rules

Does an Electronic Stock Exchange Need an Upstairs Market?

Posted: 28 Oct 2003
Kumar Venkataraman and Hendrik Bessembinder
Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department and W.P. Carey School of Business

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Upstairs market, Limit order book, Electronic exchange, Crossing rules

The Impact of Legal and Political Institutions on Equity Trading Costs: A Cross-Country Analysis

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 20 Jan 2004
Venkat Eleswarapu and Kumar Venkataraman
Chicago Equity Partners and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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The Impact of Legal and Political Institutions on Equity Trading Costs: A Cross-Country Analysis

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 19 Jun 2005
Venkat Eleswarapu and Kumar Venkataraman
Chicago Equity Partners and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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Trading costs, Information risk, Institutional quality, Legal system, ADR

The Impact of Legal and Political Institutions on Equity Trading Costs: A Cross-Country Analysis

The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 19, Issue 3, pp. 1081-1111, 2006
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
Venkat Eleswarapu and Kumar Venkataraman
Chicago Equity Partners and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department

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Quote Competition in Corporate Bonds

SMU Cox School of Business Research Paper No. 22-03, Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 22-70
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 04 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 12 Sep 2022
University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, University of California, Berkeley, Swiss Finance Institute - HEC Lausanne and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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Pretrade transparency, quotes, corporate bonds, OTC markets, order flow competition

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On Distinguishing Between Valuation and Arbitrage Motivated Short Selling

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 13 Mar 2007
Hemang Desai, Srinivasan Krishnamurthy and Kumar Venkataraman
Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Accounting Department, North Carolina State University - Poole College of Management and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
Downloads 373 (138,906)
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informed short selling, fundamental analysis, stock returns

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Institutional Order Handling and Broker-Affiliated Trading Venues

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 11 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2021
Syracuse University - Whitman School of Management, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, FINRA and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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Broker; ATS; Trading Cost; Order Handling; Best Execution

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Overallocation and Secondary Market Outcomes in Corporate Bond Offerings

SMU Cox School of Business Research Paper No. 20-04
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 13 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 02 May 2022
W.P. Carey School of Business, Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department, Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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Underwriting Syndicate; Primary Allocation; Overallocation; Price Stabilization; Corporate Bonds; UnderPricing; Liquidity

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Does Trade Reporting Improve Market Quality in an Institutional Market? Evidence from 144a Corporate Bonds

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 12 May 2018
Stacey E. Jacobsen and Kumar Venkataraman
Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
Downloads 241 (218,815)
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Asymmetric Information and Receiving Investor Outcomes in the Block Market for Corporate Bonds

SMU Cox School of Business Research Paper No. 23-05
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 05 Apr 2023
Stacey E. Jacobsen and Kumar Venkataraman
Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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Corporate bonds, block market, transaction costs, transparency, delayed reporting