, and more particularly the falls in the prices of listed financial securities that followed, the regulation of short … France. The EU has also been developing its regulatory response and in February 2012 the final text of a regulation dealing … with short selling was agreed. This paper considers the arguments for and against the regulation of short selling, and …

selling attracts such attention, it is arguably because it poses challenges for the goals of financial markets regulation … level, the paper seeks to foster the Trans-Atlantic dialogue on financial markets regulation, taking short selling as a case …