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The type of short selling and issue discounts in seasoned equity offerings

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  • Katsushi Suzuki

    (Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University)

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This paper examines whether issue discounts and stock return around seasoned equity offerings (SEOs) differ according to the type of short selling, manipulative or informative, in Japan where a special short selling regulation around SEOs, such as Rule 105 in the United States, does not exist. Following Gerard and Nanda (1993), this paper measures the type of short selling based on the ratio of covering short sales with new shares (SCR). This paper finds that a higher level of short selling with a high SCR has a negative effect on the informativeness of secondary market prices, but a higher level of short selling with a low SCR has a positive effect on the information content. We also find evidence that short selling with a high SCR is associated with a price recovery, but short selling with a low SCR is associated with a price drop. Although the level of short selling has a negative effect on issue discounts, the level of short selling with a high SCR has a positive effect on underpricing. These results indicate that manipulative short selling increases by covering shorts with new shares.

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  • Katsushi Suzuki, 2010. "The type of short selling and issue discounts in seasoned equity offerings," Discussion Papers 2010-35, Kobe University, Graduate School of Business Administration.
    • Handle: RePEc:kbb:dpaper:2010-35
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    Cited by:

    1. Charles M. Jones & Adam V. Reed & William Waller, 2016. "Revealing Shorts An Examination of Large Short Position Disclosures," The Review of Financial Studies, Society for Financial Studies, vol. 29(12), pages 3278-3320.

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    Keywords

    Seasoned equity offerings; Short sales; Discounts; Price pressure; Manipulative short sales; Informative short sales;
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    JEL classification:

    • G24 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Investment Banking; Venture Capital; Brokerage
    • G38 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Government Policy and Regulation
    • G39 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Other

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