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 paper examines the interrelation between short selling and volatility as differing from previous research in that it focuses on intraday activities, rather than the daily price movements. We demonstrate that the effects of short selling activity change during the two sessions of the day and...