Despite the theoretical prediction that options improve market efficiency, this study finds that option trading does not attenuate the well-known idiosyncratic volatility anomaly, i.e., the negative relation between idiosyncratic volatility and subsequent stock returns. We argue that the...

Structural credit risk models have faced difficulties in matching observed market credit spreads while simultaneously matching default rates, recoveries, leverage and risk premia - a shortcoming that has become known as the credit spread puzzle. We ask whether stochastic asset volatility, as an...

Structural credit risk models have faced difficulties in matching observed market credit spreads while simultaneously matching default rates, recoveries, leverage and risk premia - a shortcoming that has become known as the credit spread puzzle. We ask whether stochastic asset volatility, as an...

Structural credit risk models have faced difficulties in matching observed market credit spreads while simultaneously matching default rates, recoveries, leverage and risk premia - a shortcoming that has become known as the credit spread puzzle. We ask whether stochastic asset volatility, as an...

We examine the effect of open market share repurchase announcements on prices of traded loans and find a significant wealth transfer effect; the change in the market value of equity is inversely related to the change in the market value of loans. We find that loan abnormal returns are more...