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Short Sales and Shareholders' Unanimity

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  • Jean-Marc Bottazzi

    (Paris School of Economics and Capula)

  • Mario Pascoa

    (University of Surrey)

  • Guillermo Ramírez

    (Nova School of Business and Economics)

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Short sales collided with Makowski's (1983) view that shareholders' unanimity follows from the competitiveness of the rm in the stock market. However, once short sales are properly modelled, requiring the shares to be borrowed beforehand, unanimity can be restored. Short sales are no longer an externality and have a price: the lending fee. Unanimity prevails under perfectly elastic demands by both shareholders and shareborrowers. This requires the rm's shares not to be on special. Stock prices re ect the evaluation by shareholders who did not entirely encumber their shares or shareborrowers who did not fully re-use the shares that they possess.

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  • Jean-Marc Bottazzi & Mario Pascoa & Guillermo Ramírez, 2016. "Short Sales and Shareholders' Unanimity," School of Economics Discussion Papers 0516, School of Economics, University of Surrey.
    • Handle: RePEc:sur:surrec:0516
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