We empirically examine the impact of trading activities on the liquidity of individual equity options measured by the proportional bid-ask spread. There are three main findings. First, the option return volatility, defined as the option price elasticity times the stock return volatility, has a...

In April, 2006, the newly established Thailand Futures Exchange (TFEX) launched the SET 50 index futures contract as its first traded product. The launch provides this study with a unique opportunity to investigate the development of liquidity and trading activity on an emerging futures market....

This volume considers trading strategies in illiquid markets from three perspectives. The first chapter presents an innovative approach to investigate the interactions between the trading activities of a large investor, the stock price, and liquidity. The framework generalizes existing models by...