This paper investigates arbitrage activities in China’s stock market to examine whether arbitrageurs destabilize stock prices. We focus on reversal anomaly and construct a measure of arbitrage intensity, coreversal, which captures the abnormal return correlation among stocks on which a...

We document that an increased likelihood of losing important stakeholders like key talents can lead to a higher stock price crash risk. Our test exploits U.S. state courts’ staggered rejections of the inevitable disclosure doctrine (IDD), which improves the ability of key talent to switch...