The National Pension Service (NPS) of Korea suddenly announced that they would suspend their stock lending business from October 22, 2018. Using this ideal setting, the authors investigate the effects of this suspension on market quality and short-selling activities. The authors find that stock...

We examine the day trading short-selling trades, which are initiated and closed on the same day. Using the proprietary dataset, which covers the comprehensive trading records at the trade- as well as account-level in Korean stock market, we show that the day trading short-selling is pervasive,...

We investigate the daily short-selling by foreign investors and their impact on stock price, liquidity, and volatility in the Korean stock market. From January 1, 2006 to May 31, 2010, we find that the majority of short-selling is performed by foreign, rather than by domestic, investors and that...

We use proprietary trade as well as account-level dataset of short sales to investigate the profitability of individual investors' short-selling in the Korean stock market from August 1, 2007 to May 31, 2010. An average profit is 26,810 Korean won (roughly USD 24.4) per trade per hour and we...