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...

Using microdata on stock-level lending positions from German mutual funds, we show that active funds use the equity lending market to obtain information about short sale demand. Funds reduce long positions in response to these demand signals, which allows fund managers to front-run public...

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...