FMA papers Part V

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Some more papers from last week's FMA conference.  




Shorts:  Gundy, Lim, and Verwijmeren give a fascinating analysis of whether option markets allow market participants to get around short sale bans.  The short answer is NO.  This is likely because many who sell the puts, hedge their risk by shorting the stock.  When the short is disallowed, the put contract volume for