This paper examines how CEO overconfidence affects firms' choice of debt issuance among private debt (i.e., bank loan and non-bank loan) and public bond. Using a sample of U.S. rated public firms, we find that firms with overconfident CEOs tend to issue more private debt and issue private debt...

Prior evidence on pre-bankruptcy filing informed trading is mixed. The inconclusive findings might result from the sole focus on stock trading. We reassess the presence of pre-filing informed and insider trades by examining the information content of options trading before bankruptcy...

This paper examines the effect of organization capital on corporate debt structure. We find that firms with higher organization capital rely more on unsecured debt. Using state-level unemployment insurance benefits and industry median organization capital as instrumental variables, we identity...

We use data on signed option volume to study which components of option volume predict stock returns and resolve the seemingly inconsistent results in the literature. We find no evidence that trades related to synthetic short positions in the underlying stocks contain more information than...

This study examines the informational content of options trading on acquirer announcement returns. We show that implied volatility spread predicts positively on the cumulative abnormal return (CAR), and implied volatility skew predicts negatively on the CAR. The predictability is much stronger...