Short-Selling Attacks and Creditor Runs

نویسنده

  • Xuewen Liu
چکیده

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 conduct short selling beforehand to amplify (il)liquidity and add noise to stock prices, triggering a bank run, and subsequently pro…t from the bank’s failure. We show that short-selling attacks on a bank involve two runs: the aggressive run among speculators and the conservative run among creditors. These two runs interact and reinforce each other, with compound feedback loops that drastically increase the probability of the collapse of the bank. We discuss policy implications of the model. JEL classi…cation: G01; G20, G14; G18; D82; D84

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Management Science

دوره 61  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015