During financial crises, financial market regulators often restrict short-selling to support prices and curb volatility. However, evidence suggests that short-selling bans during the turmoil in financial markets in 2007--2009 failed to achieve regulators' goals. We analyze a model of costly...

Introduction -- Modified Fama-French Factors for REITs and the Impact of Short Selling -- Impacts of the Covid-19 Crisis on US Real Estate Investments: A Sectoral Performance and Spillover Analysis -- ESG Stocks in Times of Crisis: Evidence from US REITs During Covid-19 -- Summary and Conclusion...

Regulatory and media concern has focused heavily on the potentially manipulative distortion of market prices associated with naked short selling. However, naked shorting can also have beneficial effects for liquidity and pricing efficiency. We empirically investigate the impact of naked...