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Exploiting the staggered removal of short-sale bans in China, we document unintended real effects of allowing short selling in an emerging market featured by concentrated ownership and weak investor protection. Pilot firms have worse short-term and long-term market performances after the removal...
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Employing the staggered short-sale deregulation on the Chinese stock market as quasi-exogenous shocks, we find that short selling threats is associated with higher corporate default risk, especially for firms that are more financially constrained, with higher growth rates, and higher information...
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A recent reform in China, the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect program, made a subset of Chinese stocks investable for foreign investors, thus partially opening China's stock market. We use this reform to examine the quantity and quality effects of stock market liberalization on corporate...
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Exploring staggered quasi-exogenous regulatory changes in China, we find that banking sector FDI significantly reduces the likelihood of stock price crashes of domestic listed firms. The effect is more pronounced among firms with ex-ante lower disclosure quality and worse performances, which...
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