Short-selling ban and cross-sectoral contagion: evidence from the UK
The UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) introduced a ban on the short-selling of specified financial-sector stocks in September 2008. The regulator’s stated objectives were to protect market quality, stabilize the market for financial-sector stocks, and prevent cross-sectoral contagion. We analy...
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/28464/1/Short_Selling_Ban_and_Cross_Sectoral_Contagion.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/28464/2/Azhar_MFA_New_Orleans_Acceptance_letter.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/28464/3/MFA_2012_Preliminary_Program_as_of_1-4-12-1.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/28464/ http://www.midwestfinance.org/documents/MFA%202012%20Call%20for%20Papers.pdf |
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| Institution: | Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia |
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| Summary: | The UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) introduced a ban on the short-selling of specified financial-sector stocks in September 2008. The regulator’s stated objectives were to protect market quality, stabilize the market for financial-sector stocks, and prevent cross-sectoral contagion. We analyse the price, market quality and contagion effects following the imposition of the short-selling ban, and its removal in January 2009. We report evidence consistent with a short-lived overpricing (underpricing) effect immediately after the ban was imposed (lifted). There is evidence of deterioration in market quality while the ban was in force. There is evidence of cross-sectoral contagion from the financial sector to the telecommunication sector immediately prior to the imposition of the ban, but there is no contagion for seven other non-financial sectors. There is no evidence of contagion while the ban was in force. |
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