Analysis of factors affecting individual participation in carbon market

China will set up a national carbon emissions trading market by the end of 2017, which is initially open to individual investors from the initial market for business and institutional investors. In this article, the main influencing factors and mechanism of individual participation in carbon trading market are studied by establishing multiple linear regression model. The study found that age,education level, length of account opening time, and risk attitude are the main factors influencing the participation of individual investors. Environmental awareness and environmental impact are less affected; information transparency and transaction risk also have an impact on the degree of individual investor participation; investment experience does not affect the participation of individual investors in the carbon trading market.

Do institutional investors have superior stock selection ability in China?

This paper uses unique data on the shareholdings of both institutional and individual investors to directly investigate whether institutional investors have better stock selection ability than individual investors in China.Controlling for other factors,we find that institutional investors increase(decrease)their shareholdings in stocks that subsequently exhibit positive(negative)short-and long-term cumulative abnormal returns.In contrast individual investors decrease(increase)their shareholdings in stocks that subsequently exhibit positive(negative)short-and long-term cumulative abnormal returns.These findings indicate that institutional investors have superior stock selection ability in China.

Lower Partial Moments as Measures of Perceived Risk： An Experimental Study in China

The paper reports an experiment in China on individual investors＇ risk perception. The main findings are similar with the results in Matthias （2000）, but the absolute value of correlation coefficients between risk measures and risk ratings are higher.

Intraday Market-Wide Ups/Downs and Returns

Using stock market data over 16 years for Chinese stock markets and over 3 years for U.S.stock markets,this study explores the explanatory power of early intraday market-wide up and down movements to the subsequent intraday returns within the same trading day.As compared to the closing of the previous trading day,we introduce two intraday market-wide up/down indicators in terms of the index return and the proportional difference in the numbers of stocks moving upwards to downwards at each minute.A time series analysis shows an economically and statistically significant positive relation between the intraday indicators and the subsequent intraday returns of the market indices.Intraday trading strategies that exploit this intraday relationship lead to monthly returns of 4.1%in the Chinese market and 2.8%in the U.S.market.In addition,the strategies are more profitable in markets with high activity of individual investors(i.e.,high trading value,low trading volume per transaction,small-cap,high B/M ratio,low institutional ownership,low price,and high number of shareholders).The results indicate that simple intraday market-wide up/down movements in the earlier trading affect the sentiment of retail investors,resulting in market movements in the same direction within the trading day.