Market Manipulation: A Comprehensive Study of Stock Pools

35 Pages Posted: 7 Feb 2005

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Guolin Jiang

Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

Paul G. Mahoney

University of Virginia School of Law

Jianping Mei

Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business

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Abstract

Using a hand collected new data set, this paper examines in detail a classic account of stock market manipulation - the stock pools of the 1920s, which prompted the current anti-manipulation rules in the United States. We find abnormal trading volume during pools, consistent with market manipulation, but this trading led to only modest average price increases in the short run and no abnormal performance in the long run. Thus, there is no evidence that the stock pools harmed small investors. Given investigators' efforts to find cases of manipulation on the New York Stock Exchange during the 1920s, these findings suggest that manipulation was not a substantial problem.

Keywords: Manipulation, market regulation, politics of finance

JEL Classification: G24, G28, G38, K22

Suggested Citation

Jiang, Guolin and Mahoney, Paul G. and Mei, Jianping, Market Manipulation: A Comprehensive Study of Stock Pools. Journal of Financial Economics, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=663513

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