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title: Market Impacts of Short Selling Bans
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4955275/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 4955275
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4955275
featured: 2024-09-18
citations: unknown
topic: Derivatives & Volatility
---


# Market Impacts of Short Selling Bans

Short selling bans in six European countries during the COVID-19 market stress in March 2020 resulted in decreased liquidity and trading volumes, reduced volatility, and had a lasting negative impact.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4955275
- Identifier: SSRN 4955275
- Released: 2023-10-12
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 66 (2024-09-18): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-09-18/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Derivatives & Volatility

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