12/22/2008

2008 Stock Shorting Ban Created all sorts of problems

A new paper by Ekkehart Boehmer, Charles M. Jones, and Xiaoyan Zhang show that banning short selling increased volatility of stocks:

Stocks subject to the ban suffered a severe degradation in market quality, as measured by spreads, price impacts, and intraday volatility.

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