Mispricing and Anomalies: An Exogenous Shock to Short Selling from the Dividend Tax Law Change

Han, Yufeng; Lu, Yueliang; Xu, Weike; Zhou, Guofu

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3730653

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“…There is a rich literature on how short selling impacts asset prices (Boehmer et al., 2008; Chu et al., 2020; Han et al., 2020; Jones & Lamont, 2002). More recently, empirical studies on the effect of short selling on corporate decisions are growing.…”

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Short selling and readability in financial disclosures: A controlled experiment

Sun,

2024

The Financial Review

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We examine the causal effect of short‐selling on a firm's annual report readability using regulation SHO, which relaxes short‐sale constraints for a random sample of pilot stocks. Pilot firms produce significantly less readable annual reports than nonpilot firms during the experiment period. Our results are more pronounced for firms that receive less investor attention and those with poorer growth prospects. Furthermore, pilot firms increase the use of uncertainty words in annual reports during the experiment period. Our results suggest that firms produce less transparent financial disclosures that are more costly for investors to comprehend when short‐sale constraints are less rigorous.

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