Essays in Financial Economics

In Chapter 1, I investigate abnormal behavior in individual stocks using two decades of high-frequency U.S. stock market data. I identify hundreds of thousands of short episodes where stocks exhibit ”explosive” behavior, deviating from the unit-root null hypothesis. These phenomena span multiple day...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Olshanskiy, Yury
Other Authors: Kogan, Leonid
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2024
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/155853