We examine the effects of the short selling ban, imposed by Australian regulators in the wake of the global financial crisis, on trading of financial stocks. Unlike other developed markets, where regulators imposed short-selling restrictions for brief periods of time at the height of the...

This study examines the impact of short-selling restrictions on futures mispricing (relative to various benchmarks) in the market for CSI 300 index futures. In mid-2015, Chinese regulators imposed a new short-selling restriction in an attempt to curb excessive stock market volatility. Results...