Short selling is of great interest to investors because this activity has predictive value for future stock returns. We investigate whether this extends to foreign stock ETFs. In contrast to regular stocks, ETFs with high short interest experience positive abnormal returns. Our analysis suggests...

Using daily short sale transactions data for firms traded in the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) from January 1991 to January 2007, we examine the pattern of short selling trading prior to 338 acquisition announcements. Consistent with the view that short sellers act as informed traders, we find...

11.08.2011 tarihli Sermaye Piyasası Kurulu duyurusunda, İstanbul Menkul Kıymetler Borsası'nda Ağustos 2011 döneminde yaşanan dalgalanmalar ve kayıplar gerekçe gösterilerek açığa satışlarda başlangıç teminatı oranının %50'den %70'e çıkarıldığı ifade edilmiştir. Söz...

We examine the causal effect of short-selling on a firm's annual report readability using Regulation SHO, which relaxes short-sale constraints for a random sample of pilot stocks. Pilot firms' annual report readability decreases during the experiment period. This short-selling effect on 10-K...

Deleveraging risk is the risk attributable to investing in a security held by levered investors. When there is an aggregate negative shock to the availability of funding capital, securities with a greater presence of levered investors experience extreme return realizations as these investors...

On October 26, 2008, Porsche announced a largely unexpected domination plan for Volkswagen. The resulting short squeeze in Volkswagen's stock briefly made it the most valuable listed company in the world. We argue that this was a manipulation designed to save Porsche from insolvency and the...

We find that a substantial portion of short sellers' trading advantage comes from their ability to analyze publicly available information. Using a database of short sales combined with a database of news releases, we show that the well-documented negative relation between short sales and future...

We find that a substantial portion of short sellers' trading advantage comes from their ability to analyze publicly available information. Using a database of short sales combined with a database of news releases, we show that the well-documented negative relation between short sales and future...