What makes investors short sell ETFs?

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14560%2F16%3A00090879" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14560/16:00090879 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.slu.cz/opf/cz/informace/acta-academica-karviniensia/casopisy-aak/aak-rocnik-2016/docs-2-2016/Linnertova_Deev.pdf" target="_blank" >http://www.slu.cz/opf/cz/informace/acta-academica-karviniensia/casopisy-aak/aak-rocnik-2016/docs-2-2016/Linnertova_Deev.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

What makes investors short sell ETFs?

Original language description

Short selling exchange-traded funds (ETFs) has become a common means of speculating or hedging in response to pessimistic expectations about a specific market or sector, as the short interest of ETFs is more than 10 times that of individual stocks, on average. The study determines the specific characteristics of globally available ETFs, which influence the level of short interest (such as trading volume, price stability, market capitalization, expense ratio, geographical focus, investment strategy and the availability of derivatives for the underlying index), and tests three most common short sale motivation hypotheses (overpricing, arbitrage and hedging and transaction costs). Using the monthly short interest ratio and the characteristics of ETFs traded in the US market, empirical evidence to support all three short sale motivation hypotheses is provided. The possibility of achieving abnormal returns based on previous levels of short sale is also tested.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AE - Management, administration and clerical work

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Acta academica karviniensia

ISSN

1212-415X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

XVI

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

16-27

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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