“…), and returns on corporate bonds, that is, on high-yield and investment grade. These results are corroborated by Feunou, Jahan-Parvar & Okou (2018) for aggregate returns, and by Feunou, Aliouchkin, Tedongap & Xu (2019), Tang (2019), Pederzoli (2020) and Duarte, Jones & Wang (2022) for the cross-section of stocks, who all document strong predictive power of related option characteristics, which is unspanned by standard measures of crash risk.…”