We examine daily short-selling activity and prices around reverse stock splits. Using a difference-in-difference approach with a matched sample of reverse splitting and non-reverse splitting stocks, we show that short selling increases in stocks that reverse split, relative to those that do not....

The gambler’s fallacy is the incorrect notion that after observing a particular (random) event more frequently than normal, that event is less likely to occur in the future. The main objective of our analysis is to provide tests of the gambler’s fallacy in financial markets by examining...