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Order Imbalance, Liquidity, and Market Efficiency: Evidence from the Chinese Stock Market
Author(s) -
Jiang Lei
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
managerial and decision economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.288
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1099-1468
pISSN - 0143-6570
DOI - 10.1002/mde.1547
Subject(s) - market liquidity , stock market , market maker , market efficiency , order (exchange) , economics , financial economics , stock (firearms) , market depth , china , market microstructure , monetary economics , finance , paleontology , horse , political science , law , biology , engineering , mechanical engineering
We used data from the Chinese stock market to quantify the amount of time for the market to converge to efficiency. Order imbalance may predict returns when there is no designated market maker. In spite of availability of the direction of trade information in the Chinese stock market, it takes longer for information regarding order imbalance to be incorporated into stock prices in China than in the USA. With information on past returns and order imbalance, it takes between 15 and 30 min to converge to efficiency in the Chinese stock market. The process of converging to efficiency depends highly on liquidity. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.