Clearly Irrational Financial Market Behavior: Evidence from the Early Exercise of Exchange Traded Stock Options
This paper analyzes the early exercise of exchange-traded options by different classes of investors over the 1996 to 1999 period. A large number of exercises are identified as clearly irrational without invoking any model of market equilibrium. Customers of discount brokers and customers of full-service brokers both engage in a significant number of irrational exercises while traders at large investment houses exhibit no irrational early exercise behavior. Rational and irrational exercise is triggered for discount and full-service customers by the underlying stock price attaining its highest level over the past year and by high returns on the underlying stock. Copyright 2003 by the American Finance Association.
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2003
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Authors: | Poteshman, Allen M. ; Serbin, Vitaly |
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Journal of Finance. - American Finance Association - AFA, ISSN 1540-6261. - Vol. 58.2003, 1, p. 37-70
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American Finance Association - AFA |
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