Trading Volume and Serial Correlation in Stock Returns
Abstract
This paper investigates the relationship between aggregate stock market trading volume and the serial correlation of daily stock returns. For both stock indexes and individual large stocks, the first-order daily return autocorrelation tends to decline with volume. The paper explains this phenomenon using a model in which risk-averse 'market makers'accommodate buying or selling pressure from 'liquidity'or 'noninformational' traders. Changing expected stock returns reward market makers for playing this role. The model implies that a stock price decline on a high-volume day is more likely than a stock price decline on a low-volume day to be associated with an increase in the expected stock return. Copyright 1993, the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Download Info
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Volume (Year): 108 (1993)
Issue (Month): 4 (November)
Pages: 905-39
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- Wang, Jiang & Grossman, Sanford & Campbell, John, 1993. "Trading Volume and Serial Correlation in Stock Returns," Scholarly Articles 3128710, Harvard University Department of Economics.
- John Y. Campbell & Sanford J. Grossman & Jiang Wang, 1992. "Trading Volume and Serial Correlation in Stock Returns," NBER Working Papers 4193, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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