Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 04/2015

Short-selling Bans and the Global Financial Crisis: Are They Interconnected?

Martin T. Bohl, Badye Essid, Pierre Siklos

March 2015

Centre for International Governance Innovation

Abstract

This paper observes that short-selling bans spread globally beginning in 2007. The authors seek to empirically determine whether there were spillover effects over and above the domestic impact from the imposition of such bans.