Against the tide: the commencement of short selling and margin trading in mainland China |
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Authors: | Saqib Sharif Hamish D. Anderson Ben R. Marshall |
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Affiliation: | School of Economics and Finance, Massey University, , Palmerston North, New Zealand |
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Abstract: | China's recent removal of short‐selling and margin trading bans on selected stocks enables testing of the relative effect of margin trading and short selling. We find the prices of the shortable stocks decrease, on average, relative to peer A‐shares and cross‐listed H‐shares, suggesting that short selling dominates margin trading effects. Contrary to the regulators' intention and recent developed market empirical evidence, liquidity declines and bid‐ask spreads increase in these shortable stocks. Consistent with Ausubel (1990), these results imply that uninformed investors avoid the shortable stocks to reduce the risk of trading with informed investors. |
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Keywords: | Short selling Margin trading Overvaluation Liquidity Volatility |
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