Stock Price Crashes and Short-Selling Cost
63 Pages Posted: 30 Mar 2016 Last revised: 29 Aug 2023
Date Written: August 2023
Abstract
We find that stock price crash risk is positively associated with lagged equity lending fee and fee risk. This positive relation is stronger for the stocks with a lower short interest level and higher information uncertainty. Our results are robust to using alternative measures of price crash risk and equity lending market conditions. We also find similar results when we adopt a fuzzy regression-discontinuity design based on Russell index reconstitution and a differences-indifferences methodology based on Reg SHO Pilot Program. Overall, our findings indicate that the improvement in equity lending market conditions leads to a lower stock price crash risk.
Keywords: stock price crash risk, short selling risk, lending fee, fee risk, information uncertainty, short interest
JEL Classification: G10, G12, G20
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