Differences in Trading and Pricing Between Stock and Index Options

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lemmon, Michael; Ni, Sophie Xiaoyan
• 署名单位: Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
• 刊物名称: MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0025-1909
• DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2013.1841
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 1985-2001
• 关键词: options; Volatility smile; Sentiment; speculation; BEHAVIOR

摘要

We find that the demand for stock options that increases exposure to the underlying is positively related to the individual investor sentiments and past market returns, whereas the demand for index options is invariant to these factors. These differences in trading patterns are also reflected in the differences in the composition of traders with different types of options-options on stocks are actively traded by individual investors, whereas trades in index options are more often motivated by the hedging demand of sophisticated investors. Consistent with a demand-based view of option pricing, the individual investor sentiments and past market returns are related to time-series variations in the slope of the implied volatility smile of stock options, but they have little impact on the prices of index options. The pricing impact is more pronounced in options with a higher concentration of unsophisticated investors and those with higher delta hedging costs. Our results provide evidence that factors not related to fundamentals also impact security prices.