Doina Chichernea , Kershen Huang , Alex Petkevich , Pavel Teterin
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Abstract
Using publicly available information on option volume totals, we develop new measures of directional option-to-stock (O/S) trading volume imbalance. The novel measures are strongly related to the cash-flow (CF) and discount-rate (DR) news components of unexpected stock returns and consistently predict future abnormal performance. While options markets respond more strongly to CF news than do equity markets, they still do not fully incorporate CF news into prices and therefore lead to returns predictability. This underreaction phenomenon is of smaller magnitude when the options market response is stronger and when short-sale constraints are less binding.
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The Journal of Empirical Finance is a financial economics journal whose aim is to publish high quality articles in empirical finance. Empirical finance is interpreted broadly to include any type of empirical work in financial economics, financial econometrics, and also theoretical work with clear empirical implications, even when there is no empirical analysis. The Journal welcomes articles in all fields of finance, such as asset pricing, corporate finance, financial econometrics, banking, international finance, microstructure, behavioural finance, etc. The Editorial Team is willing to take risks on innovative research, controversial papers, and unusual approaches. We are also particularly interested in work produced by young scholars. The composition of the editorial board reflects such goals.