We characterize legality and incidence of short selling in a worldwide, multimarket framework. Home country short selling restrictions curtail home market stock borrowing by 45% and reduce short selling of the country's American Depository Receipts (ADRs) by 68% due to regulatory reach. Also,...

We investigate CEOs who combine insider selling with stock splits, which is suspicious because dumping stocks is inconsistent with the positive stock-split signal. Our empirical results indicate that, compared with other splits, these suspicious splits are followed by a 53 percent lower...