Short selling by individual investors: Destabilizing or price discovering?

Pacific Basin Finance Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1232-1248

  Jung, Chan Shik ^a   Kim, Woojin ^b   Lee, Dong Wook ^c  

^a Dong A University   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Destabilizing; Individual investors; Korean stock market; Pricing efficiency; Short sale

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870698864     PISSN: 0927538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pacfin.2012.09.001     Document Type: Article

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