Employing the staggered short-sale deregulation on the Chinese stock market as quasi-exogenous shocks, we find that short selling threats is associated with higher corporate default risk, especially for firms that are more financially constrained, with higher growth rates, and higher information...

In this paper, we establish a causal link between fluctuations in the stock market and credit risks from the P2P lending market, by exploring information of more than 450 thousand loans on Renrendai.com, a leading Chinese P2P crowd lending platform. Based on the fact that retail investors...