We estimate post-jump volatility-decay risk premia as the predictable ‎difference between periods of high and low diffusive volatility. By ‎constructing straddle portfolios after positive and negative jumps occur, we ‎show that the gains that these hedged options' portfolios yield...

Many stock exchanges implement advanced procedures toward preventing manipulative orders from distorting informative price discovery during preopening sessions. Often, such sessions involve both the stock and options markets, with book-based indicative stock prices and traded index options,...

Behavioral bubble models typically assume that uninformed trend-chasers, presumably individual investors, cause bubbles, while informed contrarian investors such as institutions trade against bubbles. DeLong et al. (1990a) highlight that to be considered a 'bubble', the mis-pricing must prevail...

We develop two investment strategy measures by investor type and explore their predictive capability on idiosyncratic volatility, liquidity risk and liquidity commonality. The measures indicate whether each of our nine investor types persistently implements a “positive-feedback” or a...

Pro forma estimation of financial statements often builds on constant ratios to sales revenue. While constant ratios may be relevant for established firms operating in predictable industries, they yield non-informative and possibly misleading information when applied to new firms, and...