We utilize a novel data panel of institutional short-sell transactions (with identification flags for hedgers and non-hedgers), equity covered put warrant data, and securities lending data based on the Taiwan market to show that put warrant derivatives hedge re-balancing raises borrowing costs...

We investigate whether foreign institutional investors possess private information in index futures trading based upon six-year market index futures transaction data on the Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX). According to the French and Roll (1986) ‘decomposition of price formation', our...