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Costs and Benefits of Financial Regulation: Short-Selling Bans and Transaction Taxes

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  • Terje Lensberg

    (Norwegian School of Economics (NHH))

  • Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppé

    (University of Manchester and Norwegian School of Economics (NHH))

  • Daniel Ladley

    (University of Leicester)

Abstract

We quantify the effects of financial regulation in an equilibrium model with delegated portfolio management. Fund managers trade stocks and bonds in an order-driven market, subject to transaction taxes and constraints on short-selling and leverage. Results are obtained on the equilibrium properties of portfolio choice, trading activity, market quality and price dynamics under the different regulations. We find that these measures are neither as beneficial as some politicians believe nor as damaging as many practitioners fear.

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  • Terje Lensberg & Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppé & Daniel Ladley, 2012. "Costs and Benefits of Financial Regulation: Short-Selling Bans and Transaction Taxes," Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper Series 12-27, Swiss Finance Institute.
    • Handle: RePEc:chf:rpseri:rp1227
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    1. Ye, Qing & Zhou, Shengjie & Zhang, Jie, 2020. "Short-selling, margin-trading, and stock liquidity: Evidence from the Chinese stock markets," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 71(C).
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    4. Lensberg, Terje & Schenk-Hoppé, Klaus Reiner, 2021. "Cold play: Learning across bimatrix games," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 185(C), pages 419-441.
    5. Roberto Dieci & Xue-Zhong He, 2018. "Heterogeneous Agent Models in Finance," Research Paper Series 389, Quantitative Finance Research Centre, University of Technology, Sydney.
    6. Thorsten Hens & Terje Lensberg & Klaus Reiner Schenk‐Hoppé, 2018. "Front‐Running and Market Quality: An Evolutionary Perspective on High Frequency Trading," International Review of Finance, International Review of Finance Ltd., vol. 18(4), pages 727-741, December.
    7. Thomas Holtfort, 2019. "From standard to evolutionary finance: a literature survey," Management Review Quarterly, Springer, vol. 69(2), pages 207-232, June.
    8. Ladley, Daniel & Lensberg, Terje & Palczewski, Jan & Schenk-Hoppé, Klaus Reiner, 2015. "Fragmentation and stability of markets," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 119(C), pages 466-481.
    9. Zhou, Xuan & Lin, Shen & He, Xue-Zhong, 2025. "Reinforcement learning and rational expectations equilibrium in limit order markets," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 172(C).
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    12. Breckenfelder, Johannes, 2024. "Competition among high-frequency traders and market quality," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 166(C).
    13. Daniel Ladley, 2019. "The Design and Regulation of High Frequency Traders," Discussion Papers in Economics 19/02, Division of Economics, School of Business, University of Leicester.
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    16. MiloÈ™ Marius Cristian & MiloÈ™ Laura Raisa, 2018. "Short-Selling Regulation and the Development of the Stock Markets," Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series, Ovidius University of Constantza, Faculty of Economic Sciences, vol. 0(1), pages 470-475, July.

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    • D53 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Financial Markets
    • G18 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Government Policy and Regulation
    • C63 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Computational Techniques

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