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Session Overview
Session
Track W2-5: Institutional Investors and Financial Intermediation
Time:
Wednesday, 21/May/2025:
1:45pm - 2:30pm

Session Chair: Alberto Rossi, Georgetown University
Discussant: Arseny Gorbenko, Monash University
Location: Gateway South 122


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Presentations

Stealthy Shorts: Informed Liquidity Supply

Amit Goyal1, Adam Reed2, Esad Smajlbegovic3, Amar Soebhag3,4

1University of Lausanne and Swiss Finance Institute; 2University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill; 3Erasmus University Rotterdam; 4Robeco Quantitative Investing

Short sellers are widely known to be informed, which would typically suggest that they demand liquidity. We obtain comprehensive transaction-level data to decompose daily short volume into liquidity-demanding and liquidity-supplying components. Contrary to conventional wisdom, we show that the most informed short sellers are actually liquidity suppliers, not liquidity demanders. They are particularly informative about future returns on news days and trade on prominent cross-sectional return anomalies. Our analysis suggests that market making and opportunistic risk-bearing are unlikely to explain these findings. Instead, our results align with recent market microstructure theory, pointing to strategic liquidity provision by informed traders.

Goyal-Stealthy Shorts-480.pdf


 
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