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Direct Evidence of Non‐trading on the London Stock Exchange

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  • Andrew Clare
  • Gareth Morgan
  • Stephen Thomas

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The extent of non‐trading is shown to be much greater in the UK than in the more heavily researched US equity markets. Over the period 1975 to 1995 we find that almost 44% of all stocks in our sample failed to trade on the last day of a given month, a figure which is significantly higher than for stocks in the US (see Foerster and Keim, 1993). In this paper we investigate the relationship between the non‐trading of UK stocks and the autoregressive and seasonal behaviour of UK stock returns. In addition, we find that stocks are much more likely to be recorded as not having traded on the last day of the month in the period prior to April 1981 than after this date. We trace this result to a reporting requirement change on the London Stock Exchange and investigate whether the change has any real implications for systematic risk estimates over this period. We also find that alternative methods for calculating betas, in the presence of thin trading, are very sensitive to stock size and to non‐trading.

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  • Andrew Clare & Gareth Morgan & Stephen Thomas, 2002. "Direct Evidence of Non‐trading on the London Stock Exchange," Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 29(1‐2), pages 29-53.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jbfnac:v:29:y:2002:i:1-2:p:29-53
    DOI: 10.1111/1468-5957.00423
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