Using the unique regulatory setting from the Hong Kong stock market with both shortable and no-short stocks, we document that no-short stocks on average earn significantly higher average returns than shortable stocks. Furthermore, stocks that comove more with the portfolio of no-short stocks...

Addressing the view that recent hikes in the commodity-equity correlation will only be temporary, this paper differentiates itself from previous studies in two aspects: It examines the long-run trends and the short-run fluctuations of the commodity-equity correlation, and it does so to indices...