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Overview

Ekkehart Boehmer is affiliated with Singapore Management University in Singapore. Their research primarily focuses on areas within Business, Management and Accounting, as well as Economics, Econometrics and Finance, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to financial studies.

Their recent publications include studies on financial markets and investment strategies, often analyzing the dynamics of market quality, short selling, and stock returns. Notable papers include:

  • "Algorithmic Trading and Market Quality: International Evidence," 2020, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
  • "What Do Short Sellers Know?", 2020, European Finance Review
  • "Overnight returns, daytime reversals, and future stock returns," 2021, Journal of Financial Economics
  • "Can Shorts Predict Returns? A Global Perspective," 2021, Review of Financial Studies
  • "Smart Retail Traders, Short Sellers, and Stock Returns," 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal

Their work spans several prominent publication venues, predominantly including:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
  • European Finance Review
  • Journal of Financial Economics
  • Review of Financial Studies

Frequent co-authors in their research include Juan Wu, Xiaoyan Zhang, Kingsley Y. L. Fong, Charles M. Jones, and Ferhat Akbas. These collaborations underline a network of research partnerships primarily in financial economics and quantitative finance.

Their expertise covers multiple subfields such as Accounting, Finance, Management Science and Operations Research, and Economics and Econometrics. The main topics addressed in their research involve:

  • Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
  • Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance
  • Corporate Finance and Governance
  • Stock Market Forecasting Methods
  • Market Dynamics and Volatility
  • Banking stability, regulation, efficiency

Ekkehart Boehmer's body of work contributes to understanding complex market behaviors, especially regarding the roles of short sellers and algorithmic trading in market quality and stock return predictability. Their analytical approach integrates empirical data from international markets to explore these financial mechanisms.

Best Publications

  • Event-study methodology under conditions of event-induced variance

    Ekkehart Boehmer

  • Which Shorts Are Informed

    Ekkehart Boehmer;Charles M. Jones;Xiaoyan Zhang

  • Institutional Investors and the Informational Efficiency of Prices

    Ekkehart Boehmer;Eric K. Kelley

  • Short selling and the price discovery process

    Ekkehart Boehmer;Juan Julie Wu

  • SHACKLING SHORT SELLERS: THE 2008 SHORTING BAN

    Ekkehart Boehmer;Charles M. Jones;Xiaoyan Zhang

  • Tracking Retail Investor Activity

    Ekkehart Boehmer;Charles M. Jones;Xiaoyan Zhang;Xinran Zhang

  • Lifting the Veil: An Analysis of Pre-trade Transparency at the NYSE

    Ekkehart Boehmer;Gideon Saar;Lei Yu

  • The Good News in Short Interest

    Ekkehart Boehmer;Ekkehart Boehmer;Zsuzsa R. Huszar;Zsuzsa R. Huszar;Bradford D. Jordan

  • INTERNATIONAL EVIDENCE ON ALGORITHMIC TRADING

    Ekkehart Boehmer;Kingsley Fong;Julie Wu

  • Which Shorts are Informed

    Ekkehart Boehmer;Charles M. Jones;Xiaoyan Zhang

  • Trading your neighbor’s ETFs: Competition or fragmentation?

    Beatrice Boehmer;Ekkehart Boehmer

  • Dimensions of execution quality: Recent evidence for US equity markets

    Ekkehart Boehmer

  • Determinants of Secondary Market Prices for Developing Country Syndicated Loans

    Ekkehart Boehmer;William L. Megginson

  • Institutional Investors and the Informational Efficiency of Prices

    Eric K. Kelley;Ekkehart Boehmer

  • Estimating the Probability of Informed Trading - Does Trade Misclassification Matter? *

    Ekkehart Boehmer;Joachim Grammig;Erik Theissen

  • Shackling Short Sellers: The 2008 Shorting Ban

    Ekkehart Boehmer;Charles M. Jones;Xiaoyan Zhang

  • Business Groups, Bank Control, and Large Shareholders: An Analysis of German Takeovers☆

    Ekkehart Boehmer

  • Voting Control in German Corporations

    Marco Becht;Ekkehart Boehmer

  • Bank privatization in developing and developed countries: Cross-sectional evidence on the impact of economic and political factors

    Ekkehart Boehmer;Robert C. Nash;Jeffry M. Netter

  • Public Disclosure and Private Decisions: Equity Market Execution Quality and Order Routing

    Ekkehart Boehmer;Robert Jennings;Li Wei

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffry M. Netter
Jeffry M. Netter University of Georgia
Alexander Ljungqvist
Alexander Ljungqvist Stockholm School of Economics
Bradford D. Jordan
Bradford D. Jordan University of Florida
William L. Megginson
William L. Megginson University of Oklahoma

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