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Publication date: 25 January 2013

Guojin Chen, Aihuan Xu and Xiangqin Zhao

The aim of this paper is to empirically analyze the source of commonality in liquidity change in China's stock market.

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Abstract

Purpose

The aim of this paper is to empirically analyze the source of commonality in liquidity change in China's stock market.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper used two‐step test method in Coughenour and Saad and empirically tested the relationship between institutional investors' involuntary trading behaviors and commonality in liquidity change in China's stock market.

Findings

The results showed that to take the open‐end fund as a representative of institutional investors, their involuntary trading behaviors were an important source of commonality in liquidity change in China's stock market.

Originality/value

For a long time, the domestic researchers have ignored the study about the source of commonality in liquidity change in China's stock market. But, this study's conclusion expanded the explanation about the source of commonality in liquidity change in China's stock market from a new point of view that the demand‐side explanation. Because there is no market‐maker trading behaviors in China's stock market, the paper cannot explain the source of commonality in liquidity change in China's stock market from the point of view of the supply‐side explanation.

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China Finance Review International, vol. 3 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2044-1398

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