Deng, Min; Nguyen, Minh; Gebka, Bartosz - 2023
We find that equity option liquidity increases stock price crash risk. This effect is robust to different measures of … option liquidity and crash risk, alternative weighting schemes, option moneyness, and is not spurious due to endogeneity … issues. The option liquidity-stock crash risk causality is also a unique phenomenon, not a manifestation of higher crash risk …