The Chinese University of Hong Kong-Tsinghua University Joint Research Center for Chinese Economy 清華大學-香港中文大學中國經濟聯合研究中心 - Chinese Retail Investors The Chinese University of Hong Kong-Tsinghua University <br/>Joint Research Center for Chinese Economy 清華大學-香港中文大學中國經濟聯合研究中心

Date: 14 Oct 2021 (Thu)
Webinar

 

Monthly Webinar Series 2021:

Capital Market Development: China and Asia 

10:00 am – 11:10 am, Thursday (Beijing-Singapore Time)
10:00 pm, Wednesday (US Time / Eastern Time)

Using trading and holdings data from the Shanghai Stock Exchange from 2016 to 2019, the authors examine retail investor’s trading behaviors in Chinese stock market. The authors separate tens of millions of retail investors into five groups by their account sizes and document strong heterogeneity in their trading dynamics and performances. Retail investors with smaller account sizes pursue momentum trading strategies, buy future losers while sell future winners, fail to process public news. In sharp contrast, retail investors with larger account balances follow contrarian strategies, buy and sell stocks in directions consistent with future price movements, incorporate public news in their trading. These patterns are stronger for young male retail investors.

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Speaker

Xiaoyan ZHANG, Xinyuan Professor of Finance, Associate Dean, PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University and Senior Fellow of ABFER

Co-authors:
Charles M. JONES, Robert W. Lear Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia University
Donghui SHI, Professor of Finance (Practice-Track) at Fanhai International School of Finance, Fudan University
Xinran ZHANG, Assistant Professor at Central University of Finance and Economics

Discussant
Terrance ODEAN, Rudd Family Foundation Professor of Finance, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

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Session Format
Each session lasts for 1 hour 10 minutes (25 minutes for the author, 25 minutes for the discussant and 20 minutes for participants' Q&A). Sessions will be recorded and posted on ABFER's web, except in cases where speakers or discussants request us not to.

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Registration
Please register in http://abfer.org/events/abfer-events/212:webinarseries2021reg. A unique Zoom webinar link will be sent to you two days before the event. (Notice: Videos and screenshots will be taken during each session for the purpose of marketing, publicity purposes in print, electronic and social media)

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Organizing Committee
Zhiguo HE, Jun PAN, Michael SONG, Bernard YEUNG, Bohui ZHANG, Xiaoyan ZHANG (co-chaired by Zhiguo HE and Bernard YEUNG)

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Hosting Organizers
ABFER and University of Chicago's Becker Friedman Institute China (BFI-China)

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Collaborating Organizers
National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Department of Economics, CUHK-Shenzhen and Tsinghua University PBC School of Finance (Tsinghua PBCSF)

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Event Website: http://abfer.org/events/abfer-events/monthly-webinar-series/211:webinarseries2021

Date: 14 Oct 2021 (Thu)
Webinar

 

Monthly Webinar Series 2021:

Capital Market Development: China and Asia 

10:00 am – 11:10 am, Thursday (Beijing-Singapore Time)
10:00 pm, Wednesday (US Time / Eastern Time)

Using trading and holdings data from the Shanghai Stock Exchange from 2016 to 2019, the authors examine retail investor’s trading behaviors in Chinese stock market. The authors separate tens of millions of retail investors into five groups by their account sizes and document strong heterogeneity in their trading dynamics and performances. Retail investors with smaller account sizes pursue momentum trading strategies, buy future losers while sell future winners, fail to process public news. In sharp contrast, retail investors with larger account balances follow contrarian strategies, buy and sell stocks in directions consistent with future price movements, incorporate public news in their trading. These patterns are stronger for young male retail investors.

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Speaker

Xiaoyan ZHANG, Xinyuan Professor of Finance, Associate Dean, PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University and Senior Fellow of ABFER

Co-authors:
Charles M. JONES, Robert W. Lear Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia University
Donghui SHI, Professor of Finance (Practice-Track) at Fanhai International School of Finance, Fudan University
Xinran ZHANG, Assistant Professor at Central University of Finance and Economics

Discussant
Terrance ODEAN, Rudd Family Foundation Professor of Finance, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

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Session Format
Each session lasts for 1 hour 10 minutes (25 minutes for the author, 25 minutes for the discussant and 20 minutes for participants' Q&A). Sessions will be recorded and posted on ABFER's web, except in cases where speakers or discussants request us not to.

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Registration
Please register in http://abfer.org/events/abfer-events/212:webinarseries2021reg. A unique Zoom webinar link will be sent to you two days before the event. (Notice: Videos and screenshots will be taken during each session for the purpose of marketing, publicity purposes in print, electronic and social media)

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Organizing Committee
Zhiguo HE, Jun PAN, Michael SONG, Bernard YEUNG, Bohui ZHANG, Xiaoyan ZHANG (co-chaired by Zhiguo HE and Bernard YEUNG)

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Hosting Organizers
ABFER and University of Chicago's Becker Friedman Institute China (BFI-China)

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Collaborating Organizers
National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Department of Economics, CUHK-Shenzhen and Tsinghua University PBC School of Finance (Tsinghua PBCSF)

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Event Website: http://abfer.org/events/abfer-events/monthly-webinar-series/211:webinarseries2021