We test whether short-sellers in U.S. stocks are able to predict future returns based on new SEC-mandated data for 2005. There is a tremendous amount of short-selling activity during the sample: Short-sales represent 24 percent of NYSE and 32 percent of Nasdaq share volume. Our analysis shows that short-sellers primarily target short-term overreaction in stock prices, but they are also able to ...

Advance selling occurs when sellers allow buyers to purchase at a time preceding consumption (Shugan and Xie 2000). Electronic tickets, smart cards, online prepayments, and other technological advances make advance selling possible for many, if not all, service providers. These technologies lower the cost of making complex transactions at a greater distance from the seller’s site. They also giv...

Abstract This paper treats the risk-averse optimal portfolio problem with consumption in continuous time with a stochastic-volatility, jump-diffusion (SVJD) model of the underlying risky asset and the volatility. The new developments are the use of the SVJD model with double-uniform jump-amplitude distributions and time-varying market parameters for the optimal portfolio problem. Although unlim...

This paper treats the risk-averse optimal portfolio problem with consumption in continuous time with a stochastic-volatility, jump-diffusion (SVJD) model of the underlying risky asset and the volatility. The new developments are the use of the SVJD model with double-uniform jumpamplitude distributions and time-varying market parameters for the optimal portfolio problem. Although unlimited borro...

In this paper, we apply the Markowitz portfolio optimization technique based on mean-variance and semi-variance as measures of risk stocks listed South Pacific Stock Exchange, Fiji. We document key market characteristics consider monthly returns data from SEP-2019 to FEB-2022 (T = 30) 17/19 companies stock exchange construct various portfolios like 1/N (naïve), maximum return, minimum-variance ...

This paper integrates competitive pricing and network design problems for the short life cycle products. The pricing problem determines selling prices of the products for different life cycle phases in a competitive market, as well as acquisition management of returned products. Besides, the selling and acquisition prices are related to the distance between distribution centers and customers. T...

This paper investigates the mechanism through which short selling of a bank’s stocks can trigger the failure of the bank. In the model, creditors, who learn information from stock prices, will grow increasingly unsure about the bank’s true fundamentals in facing noisier stock prices; thus a run on the bank is more likely because of creditors’ concave payo¤. Understanding this, speculators condu...