(Presentation Slides) Do Short-Sellers Arbitrage the Accrual Anomaly?

47 Pages Posted: 21 Aug 2018

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David A. Hirshleifer

Marshall School of Business, USC; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Siew Hong Teoh

UCLA Anderson School of Management

Jeff Jiewei Yu

University of Arizona

Date Written: June 15, 2010

Abstract

We find a positive association between short-selling and accruals during 1988-2009, and that asymmetry between the long and short sides of the accrual anomaly is stronger when constraints on short-arbitrage are more severe (low availability of loanable shares as proxied by institutional holdings). Short arbitrage occurs primarily among firms in the top accrual decile. Asymmetry is only present on NASDAQ. Thus, there is short arbitrage of the accrual anomaly, but short sale constraints limit its effectiveness.
Paper is available here: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1026044.

Keywords: accruals, anomalies, arbitrage, short sales, market efficiency

JEL Classification: M41, M43, G14, G10

Suggested Citation

Hirshleifer, David A. and Teoh, Siew Hong and Yu, Jeff Jiewei, (Presentation Slides) Do Short-Sellers Arbitrage the Accrual Anomaly? (June 15, 2010). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3228837 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3228837

David A. Hirshleifer (Contact Author)

Marshall School of Business, USC ( email )

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Siew Hong Teoh

UCLA Anderson School of Management ( email )

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Jeff Jiewei Yu

University of Arizona ( email )

School of Accountancy
Eller College of Management
Tucson, AZ 85721
United States
520-621-1273 (Phone)

HOME PAGE: http://https://accounting.eller.arizona.edu/people/jeff-jiewei-yu

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