Verousis, Thanos, Gwilym, Owain ap and Chen, XiaoHua (2015) The intraday determination of liquidity in the NYSE LIFFE equity option markets. The European Journal of Finance, 22 (12). ISSN 1351-847X

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Abstract

We exploit an extensive high-frequency data set of all individual equity options trading at New York Stock Exchange London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (Amsterdam, London and Paris) in order to study the determination of liquidity during the trading day. In particular, we focus on two main aspects of option liquidity: (i) the intraday behaviour of equity option liquidity and its determinants and (ii) the influence of macroeconomic events and commonality on intraday equity option liquidity. Inventory management models cannot explain the intraday variation in option spreads and depths. Instead, we show that the option liquidity measures are strongly correlated with option volatility. Increases in volatility are associated with decreases in liquidity, a finding that is in line with information asymmetry models and the derivatives hedging theory. However, the relationship between spreads and volume varies across the three markets. Option liquidity reacts strongly to macroeconomic news announcements, especially US events. The average systematic liquidity component is 12% for Amsterdam, 14% for London and 16% for Paris.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Business, Management and Economics > Business and Management
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HG Finance
Related URLs:	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Depositing User:	Tahir Beydola
Date Deposited:	04 Apr 2018 15:51
Last Modified:	05 Apr 2018 16:17
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/74823

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