Do hedge funds add value to the companies they target or reap short-term benefits at the expense of others? This paper looks at the impact of shareholder activism on bondholders' wealth through the prism of bondholder-shareholder-manager conflicts as opposed to that of the activism literature,...

This paper evaluates the information content of trading activity in near-the-money option markets. The results provide compelling evidence consistent with hypotheses of delta- and vega-informed trading activity in near-the-money option markets for firms with actively traded near-the-money...