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Supply and Demand Shifts in the Shorting Market
Published: 09/04/2007 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2007.01269.x
LAUREN COHEN, KARL B. DIETHER, CHRISTOPHER J. MALLOY
Using proprietary data on stock loan fees and quantities from a large institutional investor, we examine the link between the shorting market and stock prices. Employing a unique identification strategy, we isolate shifts in the supply and demand for shorting. We find that shorting demand is an important predictor of future stock returns: An increase in shorting demand leads to negative abnormal returns of 2.98% in the following month. Second, we show that our results are stronger in environments with less public information flow, suggesting that the shorting market is an important mechanism for private information revelation.
Differences of Opinion and the Cross Section of Stock Returns
Published: 12/17/2002 | DOI: 10.1111/0022-1082.00490
Karl B. Diether, Christopher J. Malloy, Anna Scherbina
We provide evidence that stocks with higher dispersion in analysts' earnings forecasts earn lower future returns than otherwise similar stocks. This effect is most pronounced in small stocks and stocks that have performed poorly over the past year. Interpreting dispersion in analysts forecasts as a proxy for differences in opinion about a stock, we show that this evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that prices will reflect the optimistic view whenever investors with the lowest valuations do not trade. By contrast, our evidence is inconsistent with a view that dispersion in analysts' forecasts proxies for risk.
It's SHO Time! Short‐Sale Price Tests and Market Quality
Published: 01/23/2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2008.01428.x
KARL B. DIETHER, KUAN‐HUI LEE, INGRID M. WERNER
We examine the effects of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)‐mandated temporary suspension of short‐sale price tests for a set of Pilot securities. While short‐selling activity increases both for NYSE‐ and Nasdaq‐listed Pilot stocks, returns and volatility at the daily level are unaffected. NYSE‐listed Pilot stocks experience more symmetric trading patterns and a slight increase in spreads and intraday volatility after the suspension while there is a smaller effect on market quality for Nasdaq‐listed Pilot stocks. The results suggest that the effect of the price tests on market quality can largely be attributed to distortions in order flow created by the price tests themselves.