Illiquidity Premia in the Equity Options Market

Peter Christoffersen, Ruslan Goyenko, Kris Jacobs and Mehdi Karoui

The Review of Financial Studies, 2018, vol. 31, issue 3, 811-851

Abstract: Standard option valuation models leave no room for option illiquidity premia. Yet we find the risk-adjusted return spread for illiquid over liquid equity options is $3.4\%$ per day for at-the-money calls and $2.5 \%$ for at-the-money puts. These premia are computed using option illiquidity measures constructed from intraday effective spreads for a large panel of U.S. equities, and they are robust to different empirical implementations. Our findings are consistent with evidence that market makers in the equity options market hold large and risky net long positions, and positive illiquidity premia compensate them for the risks and costs of these positions. Received September 25, 2012; editorial decision September 17, 2017 by Editor Andrew Karolyi. Authors have furnished an Internet Appendix, which is available on the Oxford University Press Web site next to the link to the final published paper online.

Date: 2018
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