This paper empirically examines the efficacy of the 2008 short-sale ban. We find that the firms covered by the ban experience positive abnormal returns at the ban initiation. When the ban expires, small banks, medium/large banks, and brokerage firms continue to experience positive abnormal...

“Clawback Provisions” are corporate governance mechanisms intended to reduce managers' opportunistic behavior. Voluntary clawback provisions have been associated with many positive consequences in extant literature. A causal relation has been used to explain this association. However,...