The effect of option trading

Keming Li ()
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Keming Li: A&M University-San Antonio

Financial Innovation, 2021, vol. 7, issue 1, 1-32

Abstract: Abstract This paper studies the effect of option trading on corporate investment and financing policies. Based on prior literature, I hypothesize that option market induces informed trading and thus reduces information asymmetry and the cost of capital. As a result, firms with high option trading have more investment and financing. Specifically, based on the United States public data, this paper finds that option trading volume increases corporate investment and financing, but reduces cash holdings and corporate payouts. These results are robust to the inclusion of industry or firm fixed effect, a control for endogenous options trading, and the use of alternative measures of option trading and corporate policies. The effect of option trading is stronger for firms with higher information asymmetry problems. Finally, this paper finds the results are inconsistent with the “quiet Life” hypothesis and the catering hypothesis.

Keywords: Option trading; Corporate policies; Investment and financing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G14 G31 G32 G35 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1186/s40854-021-00279-5

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