Abstract:This paper employs forward‐looking information from the options market to shed light on the comovement implications of S&P 500 index inclusion events over the 1997–2020 period. To this end, we test if forward ‐looking implied betas impound significant pre‐inclusion information that is not embedded in historical betas. The empirical results show that the increase in post‐inclusion implied betas is significantly smaller than the corresponding increase in historical or hybrid betas. In most cases, changes in i… Show more
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