We investigate the causal relationships between volatility implied in Major Market Index (MMI) options and its component stocks' options from January, 1987 to October, 1989. We find that MMI implied volatility Granger causes component stock implied volatility for all twenty component stocks,...

This paper examines compensation for the underwriting activity in firm commitment initial public offerings (IPOs) of common stock in the U.S. When compensation for origination, management and marketing efforts are excluded from total underwriter compensation, we find that the portion of the...

We investigate the trading of benchmark ETFs, leveraged ETFs, and leveraged inverse ETFs that are matched based on their tracking index or sector. We find that ETF trading is very active and average daily trading volume for the most active ETF is more than $25 billion during the period of March...

We investigate whether the sale of secondary shares in the IPO process is affected by an issuing firm’s market-timing and window-dressing activities. We find that secondary share offerings in IPOs exhibit positive autocorrelation, and the positive autocorrelation is mainly affected by the...