Wie in "Die Gier war grenzenlos" von Anne T. (BA 6/09) wird eine Innensicht der internationalen Finanzmarktkrise, hier aus US-amerikanischer Sicht, geboten. Der Bestsellerautor (am bekanntesten der Insider-Bericht "Wall Street Poker", BA 9/90) schildert die Praktiken der Finanzunternehmen am...

The author examines the causes of the U.S. stock market crash of 2008 and its relation to overpriced real estate, bad mortgages, shareholder demand for excessive profits, and the growth of toxic derivatives.

We create proxies for constrained supply of lendable shares by combining unique data on loan fees, stock lending activity, and failures to deliver to examine how contrarian short-sale strategies are affected by constraints. Constraints affect roughly one-third of the cross- section of stocks and...