The “adverse selection” hypothesis expects that the introduction of index futures trading will decrease the liquidity of index component stocks as liquidity-motivated traders migrate to futures trading. Conversely, the “index arbitrage” hypothesis predicts that index arbitrage activity...

We assess the stock market volatility spillover between three closely related countries, United States, China and Australia. This study considers industry data and hence provides a clear idea of the channels through which volatility is transmitted across these countries. We find that there is...

We find that leverage-initiating stocks experience an increase in return comovement with existing leveraged stocks and a decrease in return comovement with existing zero-leverage stocks in the year after the leverage initiation event. In contrast, stocks that fully deleverage comove more with...