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Options trades, short sales and real earnings management

Options trades, short sales and real earnings management
Options trades, short sales and real earnings management
We study the link between measures of stock options’ volatility and firms’ real earnings management (RM). We hypothesize that RM causes uncertainty in the value of a firm’s common stock and, as a result, increases the volatility spread and skew of the firm’s options. Spread and skew proxy for investors’ uncertainty in the value of the options underlying a stock. Consistent with our hypothesis, we find an association between a firm’s use of RM, and the volatility spread and skew in the firm’s options, more precisely in its put options. We also study the link between short selling and the extent of RM but do not find a consistent relationship between the two.
0001-4788
400-427
Mellado-Cid, Cristhian
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Jory, Surendranath
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Ngo, Thanh
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Mellado-Cid, Cristhian
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Jory, Surendranath
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Ngo, Thanh
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Mellado-Cid, Cristhian, Jory, Surendranath and Ngo, Thanh (2019) Options trades, short sales and real earnings management. Accounting and Business Research, 49 (4), 400-427. (doi:10.1080/00014788.2019.1573655).

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We study the link between measures of stock options’ volatility and firms’ real earnings management (RM). We hypothesize that RM causes uncertainty in the value of a firm’s common stock and, as a result, increases the volatility spread and skew of the firm’s options. Spread and skew proxy for investors’ uncertainty in the value of the options underlying a stock. Consistent with our hypothesis, we find an association between a firm’s use of RM, and the volatility spread and skew in the firm’s options, more precisely in its put options. We also study the link between short selling and the extent of RM but do not find a consistent relationship between the two.

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Accepted/In Press date: 10 January 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 17 February 2019

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Local EPrints ID: 427626
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/427626
ISSN: 0001-4788
PURE UUID: ecde1e47-5ebf-4499-b526-fce83027c87e
ORCID for Surendranath Jory: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-8265-0001

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Date deposited: 24 Jan 2019 17:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 07:31

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Author: Cristhian Mellado-Cid
Author: Thanh Ngo

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