We study China's flagship option market, Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) 50 ETF option market, and the information content of trading volume using a proprietary dataset. We find that open buy put-call ratio, defined as put volume over the sum of put and call volumes, of financial institutional...

Systemic risk has drawn the attention of many researchers and financial institutions since the recent financial crisis. Popular systemic risk measures include CoVaR, CoES, MES and SRISK etc. However, there are only a few methods available on modeling these measures, and even less papers on...

Theory suggests that firm value should include the value of real options; that is, firms have the option to expand more profitable businesses and liquidate less profitable businesses. In a diversified firm, each segment has its own real options. Applying real options theory to a diversified firm...

Existing studies have debated on the information content and the predictive power on future stock returns of short interests-the number of shares of a stock sold short. We explore a unique institutional feature on the time lag between monthly recording of short interests and their public release...