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Stock Price and Trading Volume Effects Associated with Changes in the MSCI Free Indices: Evidence from Taiwanese Firms Added to and Deleted from the Indices

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  • Pei-Gi Shu

    (Department of Business Administration, Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taipei 242, Taiwan, ROC)

  • Yin-Hua Yeh

    (Department of International Trade and Finance, Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taipei 242, Taiwan, ROC)

  • Yu-Chen Huang

    (Graduate School of Management, Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taipei 242, Taiwan, ROC)

Abstract

This study analyzes price-volume relation for Taiwanese listed firms that are added to or deleted from the MSCI free indices in the sampling period from May 17, 1999 to May 21, 2001. Additions to the indices found a positive abnormal return of 3.9% in the run-up window from the announcement day up to one day before the change was implemented. This was followed by a significant reversal on the change day. The deleted firms exhibit an even stronger announcement effect, with a significant abnormal return of -9.1% in the run-up, followed by a reversal of 1.6% on the change day. Even when reversals occurred on the change day, the abnormal returns in the post-announcement window are positive for additions and negative for deletions. The results support the price-pressure and long-run downward-sloping-demand hypothesis and are inconsistent with the efficient market hypothesis. The abnormal trading volume for deletions is negative following the announcement, contradicting the findings of Lynch and Mendenhall (1997). This difference is due to the innate of the Taiwanese stock market, in which no dedicated market makers accommodate block trading. Moreover, the regression results confirm a positive volume-return relation before and a negative relation on and after the change day. Finally, the QFII net buy (sell) the added (deleted) stocks up to ten days after the change was implemented, while the Securities Investment Trusts and Securities dealers, having a shorter frame net, buy the added stocks up to two days after the effective change. Individual investors reversing position on the change day are responsible for the price reversal on the change day.

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  • Pei-Gi Shu & Yin-Hua Yeh & Yu-Chen Huang, 2004. "Stock Price and Trading Volume Effects Associated with Changes in the MSCI Free Indices: Evidence from Taiwanese Firms Added to and Deleted from the Indices," Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies (RPBFMP), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 7(04), pages 471-491.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:rpbfmp:v:07:y:2004:i:04:n:s021909150400024x
    DOI: 10.1142/S021909150400024X
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    1. Tu, Chia-Jung & Chang, Yuanchen, 2012. "Analyst responses to stock-index adjustments: Evidence from MSCI Taiwan Index additions," Review of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 21(2), pages 82-89.
    2. Chia-Jung Tu, 2012. "The Price Response to KIKKEI 225 Stocks Index Adjustments," The International Journal of Business and Finance Research, The Institute for Business and Finance Research, vol. 6(4), pages 59-71.
    3. Ernest Biktimirov & Boya Li, 2014. "Asymmetric stock price and liquidity responses to changes in the FTSE SmallCap index," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 42(1), pages 95-122, January.
    4. Bajzik, Josef, 2021. "Trading volume and stock returns: A meta-analysis," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 78(C).
    5. Mazouz, Khelifa & Daya, Wael & Yin, Shuxing, 2014. "Index revisions, systematic liquidity risk and the cost of equity capital," Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Elsevier, vol. 33(C), pages 283-298.
    6. Chia‐Jung Tu & Yuanchen Chang, 2012. "Analyst responses to stock‐index adjustments: Evidence from MSCI Taiwan Index additions," Review of Financial Economics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 21(2), pages 82-89, April.
    7. Houdou Basse Mama & Stefan Mueller & Ulrich Pape, 2017. "What’s in the news? The ambiguity of the information content of index reconstitutions in Germany," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 49(4), pages 1087-1119, November.

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    Keywords

    MSCI; composition changes; QFII;
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    JEL classification:

    • G1 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets
    • G2 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services
    • G3 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance

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