Despite the significant attention that market manipulation has received in recent years many
aspects of it are poorly understood. This article identifies from the theoretical and empirical …

We identify a group of “suspicious” firms that use stock splits, perhaps along with other
activities, to artificially inflate their share prices. Following the initiation of suspicious splits …

Manipulation has been a vexing subject in commodity futures markets from the mid-19th
century. The economics literature has identified several kinds of manipulation, including …

We provide evidence suggesting that some hedge funds manipulate stock prices on critical
reporting dates. Stocks in the top quartile of hedge fund holdings exhibit abnormal returns of …

We quantify the effects of closing price manipulation on trading characteristics and stock
price accuracy using a unique sample of prosecuted manipulation cases. Based on these …

At the end of January 2021, a group of stocks listed on US stock exchanges experienced
sudden price increases, which–coupled with high short interest–led to short-squeeze …

Price manipulation refers to the activities of those traders who use carefully designed trading
behaviors to manually push up or down the underlying equity prices for making profits. With …

We empirically analyze the prevalence and economic underpinnings of closing price
manipulation and its detection. We estimate that∼ 1% of closing prices are manipulated, of …

In a well‐functioning futures market, the futures price at expiration equals the price of the
underlying asset. This condition failed to hold in grain markets for most of 2005‐2010 …

Springer Finance is a programme of books addressing students, academics and
practitioners working on increasingly technical approaches to the analysis of financial …