Using the industry benchmark CreditGrades model to analyze credit default swap (CDS) spreads across a large number of companies during the 2007-09 credit crisis, the authors demonstrate that the performance of the model can be significantly improved by calibrating it with option-implied...

In this research study, we develop a new measure based on the option market to address the information role of earnings announcement on uninformed traders. Enlightened by previous theoretical work by Kim and Verrecchia (1991, 1994) and empirical findings in Patell and Wolfson (1979, 1981), our...

We provide evidence that an option implied volatility-based measure predicts future absolute excess returns of the underlying stock around earnings announcements and annual meetings of shareholders, even after controlling for the realized stock return volatility shortly before these information...