The U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) was reluctant to release the names of firms that borrowed, and the amounts borrowed, from the emergency loan facilities during the financial crisis. We show that when the details of this information were finally made public by the Fed, there was no stock market...

We propose a test of Barberis and Huang's (2008) theory of skewness preferences. The probability weighting feature that is the basis of their theory relies on investors overweighting the probability of tail events. The resulting investor preferences for positive skewness in return distributions...

Much of traditional asset pricing theory rests on the assumption of normality in the distribution of stock returns. A growing body of research suggests that skewness in the return distributions can affect asset prices. This paper attempts to empirically identify factors that influence return...

A broad stream of research shows that information flows into underlying stock prices through the options market. For instance, prior research shows that both the Put–Call Ratio (P/C) and the Option-to-Stock Volume Ratio (O/S) predict negative future stock returns. In this paper, we compare the...

We examine the effects of an order cancellation fee on limit order flow and execution quality in the PHLX options market. The cancellation fee on professional order flow is effective in reducing the rate at which limit orders are canceled. While the cancellation fee discourages the submission of...