Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the 2008 SEC short selling ban on financial firms and whether this ban negatively impacted private information provision in these short‐restricted equities. Design/methodology/approach – This paper employs the French and Roll Variance Ratio...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of trades by informed traders and uninformed traders on the asymmetric volatility relation, a stylized fact that has long been puzzling financial economists. Avramov, Chordia, and Goyal's hypothesized that asymmetric volatility,...

Academics and practitioners have been more interested in various behavioral issues in finance and accounting. This special issue strives to stimulate interdisciplinary research about psychological influences on corporate and investment decision making and the relationship between the accounting...