Failure is an option: Impediments to short selling and options prices

Review of Financial Studies

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1955-1980

  Evans, Richard B ^a   Geczy, Christopher C ^b   Musto, David K ^b   Reed, Adam V ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d McColl Building ^*  (United States)

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EID: 67849124233     PISSN: 08939454     EISSN: 14657368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rfs/hhm083     Document Type: Article

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