Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which introduction of ETFs reduces short-sale constraints in their constituent stocks. Design/methodology/approach – First, the introduction of ETFs increases short interest for stocks that they hold. Second, the increase in...

A stock's inclusion in an ETF has the potential to reduce its short sale constraints by decreasing search costs and lowering recall risk. This paper examines how the introduction of ETFs impacts short interest levels of their constituent stocks. We find that short selling in the underlying...

We study whether asset-class risk dynamics can help explain the predominantly negative stock-bond return relation and movements in the term-structure's slope over 1997-2011. Using option-derived implied volatilities to measure risk, we find: (1) the negative stock-bond return relation largely...

We investigate the association between risk-taking incentives provided by stock-based compensation arrangements and non-GAAP financial disclosures. Controlling for compensation to stock price sensitivity, we find that managers with higher compensation to stock volatility sensitivity (vega) are...

Adrian, Crump, and Vogt (2019) find that a nonlinear specification is required to identify a reliable relation between VIX and the equity premium. We reexamine this risk-return issue in a multi-risk framework with VIX and T-bond risk (MOVE). We find that: (1) the `MOVE-equity premium' relation...

Over 1960 to 2017, we show that a positive risk premium from holding high-beta stocks (versus low-beta stocks) and small-cap stocks (versus large-cap stocks) is reliably earned only after the expected stock-market volatility breaches an approximate top-quintile threshold. The high conditional...

We investigate bivariate regime-switching in daily futures-contract returns for the US stock index and ten-year Treasury notes over the crisis-rich 1997-2005 period. We allow the return means, volatilities, and correlation to all vary across regimes. We document a striking contrast between...