Abstract
This paper takes advantage of a natural experiment in Taiwan to test the effect of short-sales constraints on price delays. The new short-sales policy creates unique daily dynamics of short-sales constraints. The constraints are free from endogeneity bias. They are also public information and thus ideal for testing the rational expectation models. Our results show that stock prices react to information in a way similar to if short-selling was not prohibited. This is in line with Diamond and Verrecchia (1987). We also study the effect of price limits on the delays and find them increase if prices hit the limits.
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