Complete Lists of Authors, Institutions, and Papers and the Citations They Have Received in the Social Science Citation Index.The paper "The Remarkable Growth in Financial Economics, 1974-2020" is available here: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3722311

In a short sale, an investor sells a share of stock he does not own and profits when the price of the stock declines. A peculiar feature of short sales is the apparent increase in the number of shares of stock beneficially held by investors over and above the actual number of shares issued by...