We estimate that the ban on short-selling financial stocks imposed by the SEC in September 2008 led to price inflation of 10-12% in the banned stocks based on a factor-analytic model that extracts common valuation information from the prices of stocks that were not banned. This inflation...

This study assesses the impact of exchange rate variability on the riskiness of U.S. multinational firms by examining the relation between exchange rate variability and stock return volatility and by decomposing this relation into components of systematic and diversifiable risk. Focusing on two...