Stock Market Crashes and the Performance of Circuit Breakers: Empirical Evidence

Beni Lauterbach and Uri Ben-Zion

Journal of Finance, 1993, vol. 48, issue 5, 1909-25

Abstract: This study examines the behavior of a small stock market with circuit breakers and with a one-hour preauction order imbalance disclosure during the October 1987 crash. The crash and its aftershocks lasted for a week and selling pressure was concentrated in higher beta, larger capitalization, and lower leverage firm stocks. Circuit breakers when implemented reduced the next-day opening order imbalance and the initial price loss; however, they had no effect on the long-run response. Some price overreaction and reversal phenomena also are documented. Copyright 1993 by American Finance Association.

Date: 1993
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