Short-Selling Bans and the Global Financial Crisis: Are they Interconnected?

Bohl MT, Essid B, Siklos PL

Zusammenfassung

This paper begins with the observation that short-selling bans spread globally in 2008. We find some evidence that the bans were unsuccessful at least insofar as they did not take into account the global component a short-selling ban which reduced equity returns in about a third of the 17 countries sampled, most notably in some of the major advanced economies. In the individual countries we examine, the bans had relatively little impact. Our results are suggestive as evidence that the bans stemmed further deterioration in stock prices that policy makers sought to avoid, at least in a few economies.

Schlüsselwörter

Short-selling bans; spillovers; stock markets; dynamic conditional correlations

Zitieren als

Bohl, M., Essid, B., & Siklos, P. (2018). Short-Selling Bans and the Global Financial Crisis: Are they Interconnected?. Applied Economics Quarterly, 64(2), 159–177.

Details

Publikationstyp
Forschungsartikel (Zeitschrift)

Begutachtet
Ja

Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht

Jahr
2018

Fachzeitschrift
Applied Economics Quarterly

Band
64

Ausgabe
2

Erste Seite
159

Letzte Seite
177

Sprache
Englisch

ISSN
1611-6607

DOI