In theory, banning short selling stabilizes stock prices but undermines pricing efficiency and has ambiguous impacts on market liquidity. Empirical studies find mixed and conflicting results. This paper leverages cross-country policy variation during the 2020 Covid crisis to assess differential...

In theory, banning short selling stabilizes stock prices but undermines pricing efficiency and has ambiguous impacts on market liquidity. Empirical studies find mixed and conflicting results. This paper leverages cross-country policy variation during the 2020 Covid crisis to assess differential...

We examine the breadth-return relationship and the effect of stock price manipulation on it. Using data from the Chinese stock market, we first empirically find a significantly negative breadth-return relationship. Moreover, we conduct a long-short trading strategy based on the breadth change,...

Using two proxies for investors’ political affiliation, we document sharp differences in stock returns between firms likely dominated by Democratic investors (blue stocks) and those dominated by Republican investors (red stocks) during the COVID pandemic. Red stocks have 20 basis points higher...

This paper examines how liquidity and investors' heterogeneous liquidity preferences interact toaffect asset pricing. Using data on insurers' corporate bond holdings, we find that the illiquidity ofcorporate bond portfolios varies widely and persistently across insurers, and is related to...

Open-end mutual funds have grown to become a key player in the corporate bond market. They invest in illiquid bonds but provide liquid claims to shareholders. Does such liquidity transformation introduce fragility to the corporate bond market? To address this question, we create a novel measure...