How are shorts informed?. Short sellers, news, and information processing.

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 260-278

  Engelberg, Joseph E ^a   Reed, Adam V ^b   Ringgenberg, Matthew C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric information; Manipulation; News media; Short sales

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861949631     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2012.03.001     Document Type: Article

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