This paper examines the impact of naked short selling on equity markets where it is restricted to securities on an approved list. Consistent with Miller's (1977) intuition, stocks with the highest dispersion of opinions and short sale constraints are the only stocks to exhibit significant and...

This study examines the impact of short-selling restrictions on futures mispricing (relative to various benchmarks) in the market for CSI 300 index futures. In mid-2015, Chinese regulators imposed a new short-selling restriction in an attempt to curb excessive stock market volatility. Results...

In 2008 The Hong Kong stock exchange introduced a closing call auction, which was subsequently removed in March 2009 after instances of market manipulation1. This paper examines the impact of the introduction and suspension of the closing call auction on market quality. Our empirical analysis...