As leveraged investors, are margin traders as informed as short sellers? Using a unique dataset on stock-level short selling and margin trading from three international stock markets, we find that margin trading has no cross-sectional predictability but short selling does. Compared to short...

We probe the effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on business activities in China by exploiting big data on 1.5 billion sales invoices. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we estimate that the average drop in sales is between 23% and 35%, depending on firm size, for the 12-week period after...

As leveraged investors, are margin traders as informed as short sellers? Using a unique dataset on stock-level short selling and margin trading from three international stock markets, we find that margin trading has no cross-sectional predictability but short selling does. Compared to short...