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Predictable Patterns after Large Stock Price Changes on the Tokyo Stock Exchange

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Marc Bremer ,
Takato Hiraki  and
Richard J. Sweeney
Marc Bremer
Affiliation:
School of Business Administration, Nanzan University, 18 Yamazato-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466, Japan
Takato Hiraki
Affiliation:
Graduate School of International Management, International University of Japan, Yamato-machi, Minami Uonuma-gun, Niigata 949–72, Japan
Richard J. Sweeney
Affiliation:
School of Business Administration, Georgetown University, Washington D.C. 20057.
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Abstract

This paper extends to Japanese stocks recent research on short-term stock price adjustment to new information. Using standard methodologies, we find that stock returns of firms included in the Nikkei 300 tend to be significantly positive after large price decreases. This is similar to the pattern observed for American stocks in other research. The pattern remains when returns are adjusted for market movements, and exists independently of the October 1987 market break. We find little evidence of significant patterns following large stock price increases. We also find little evidence that non-transaction prices explain the persistent, significant returns observed following large price decreases on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. We conjecture that broker/dealers and TSE member firms respond to large price decreases not by trading for their own profit, but rather by selectively supplying liquidity to their preferred retail customers. We conclude that ordinary investors probably cannot earn economic profits from these statistically significant patterns.

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Research Article
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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , September 1997 , pp. 345 - 365
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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1997

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