In theory, banning short selling stabilizes stock prices but undermines pricing efficiency and has ambiguous impacts on market liquidity. Empirical studies find mixed and conflicting results. This paper leverages cross-country policy variation during the 2020 Covid crisis to assess differential...

In theory, banning short selling stabilizes stock prices but undermines pricing efficiency and has ambiguous impacts on market liquidity. Empirical studies find mixed and conflicting results. This paper leverages cross-country policy variation during the 2020 Covid crisis to assess differential...

Bearish option strategies and short sales can be used to profit from falling stock prices. Regulators have repeatedly banned the latter, fearing it would artificially drive down stock prices during crises. This paper uses the 2011 European Short Sale Bans as well as the temporary suspension of...

This paper studies whether equity short sales and options are complements or substitutes and finds that they are substitutes when the underlying market faces short-selling constraints. This substitutability is associated with implications for stock price volatility and stock market liquidity:...

This paper studies whether equity short sales and options are complements or substitutes and finds that they are substitutes when the underlying market faces short-selling constraints. This substitutability is associated with the following implications for stock price volatility and stock market...