Financial institutions may be vulnerable to predatory short selling. When the stock of a
financial institution is shorted aggressively, leverage constraints imposed by short-term …

We find evidence of predatory trading in the corporate bond market. Exploiting novel data on
the short selling behavior of institutional investors, we demonstrate that short sellers target …

This paper studies the joint effect of borrowing and short-sale constraints under
heterogeneous beliefs and risk aversions. Although the constraints never simultaneously …

Financial markets always seem to be in a state of transition, but in the recent years it has
been evident that more substantial changes are taking place in the European financial …

Publisher Summary This chapter presents a study to examine the investment performance of
portfolio managers who engage in short selling. In recent years, short selling as an …

In terms of exchange traded funds (ETFs), systemic risk refers to the possibility of an ETF-
specific crisis spilling over to the wider financial system. A few key concerns have been …

The aim of this thesis is to analyse whether the announcements of upcoming Basel III
regulations had an effect on the performance of OMXS30 stock index of Sweden. Initially the …

After seventy years with no changes to short sale regulation, the United States Securities
and Exchange Commission intervened three times with regulatory action from July 2007 …

In this paper, we investigate short sale constraints' impact on the incidence of extreme stock
market movements. The latter can be used to proxy for the likelihood of tail events like …