Short-sale bans have been frequently utilized globally as a regulatory tool during periods of financial crisis. This paper is a review of the observed intended and unintended effects. We see that short-sale bans have pervasive effects spanning many financial markets that include options,...

We show short selling in corporate bonds forecasts future bond returns. Short selling predicts bond returns where private information is more likely, in high-yield bonds, particularly after Lehman's collapse. Short selling predicts returns following both high and low past bond returns. This,...

We examine the effects of high frequency traders (HFTs) on liquidity using the September 2008 short sale ban. To disentangle the separate impacts of short selling by HFTs and non-HFTs we use an instrumental variables approach exploiting differences in the ban's cross-sectional impact on HFTs and...

Short-sale bans have been utilized globally as a regulatory tool during periods of financial crisis. This paper reviews the observed intended and unintended effects of short-sale bans. Research has documented pervasive effects spanning many financial markets that include options, convertible...