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This study analyses the relationship between ownership structure and board of director composition and their influences on the total factor productivity (TFP) of Taiwan's firms. The empirical results show that the curvilinear specification is better to capture the relationship between inside ownership and firm productivity. Meanwhile, the ownership structure in a firm indeed affects differences in TFP between conglomerate firms and non-conglomerate firms, high-tech firms and non-high-tech firms, and family-owned firms and non-family-owned firms. Additionally, a smaller board may be less encumbered by bureaucratic problems and more functional and CEO duality may be able to improve productivity. Furthermore, productivity deteriorates with increasing proportion of collateralised shares. More institutional holdings, however, are an effective way to alleviate the negative impact of collateralised shares on TFP. Copyright (c) 2007 The Authors; Journal compilation (c) 2007 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

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This study investigates how limit orders affect liquidity in a purely order-driven futures market. Additionally, the possible asymmetric relationship between market depth and transitory volatility in bull and bear markets and the effect of institutional trading on liquidity provision behavior are examined as well. The empirical results demonstrate that subsequent market depth increases as transient volatility increases in bull markets. Market depth exhibits significantly positive relationship to subsequent transient volatility in bull markets. Additionally, although trading volume positively influences transient volatility in bull markets, no such relationship exists in bear markets. Liquidity provision decreases when institutional trading activity intensifies during bear markets. Thus, liquidity provision for limit orders differs between bull and bear markets. Copyright (c) 2009 The Authors Journal compilation (c) 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Owing to the growing importance of the Taiwan Top 50 Tracker Fund (TTT), the first and the only Taiwanese Exchange Traded Fund (ETF), this study investigates the change in the volatility of the component stocks of the Taiwan 50 Index after the introduction of TTT. Using the volatility measure proposed by Andersen et al. (2001) and the unconditional variance of a GARCH model to measure the volatilities of the constituents of the Taiwan 50 Index, the empirical results of this study demonstrate that the volatility of the component stocks increased following the establishment of TTT. The patterns of volatility change do not differ statistically among different size categories. However, the volatilities of the electronic and the financial sector TTT constituent companies increased significantly after the introduction of TTT, while the volatility of companies in the mixed sector reduced.