The Indirect Effects of Trading Restrictions

47 Pages Posted: 4 Mar 2019 Last revised: 12 May 2022

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Shujing Wang

Tongji University

Hongjun Yan

DePaul University

Ninghua Zhong

Tongji University - School of Economics and Management

Yizhou Tang

Tongji University

Date Written: March 18, 2022

Abstract

Stock market trading restrictions affect prices and liquidity directly through constraints on investors’ transactions and indirectly by altering the information environment. We isolate this indirect effect by analyzing how stock market restrictions affect corporate bond yields. Exploiting the staggered reductions of trading restrictions in the Chinese stock market as a quasi-natural experiment, we document that the easing of trading restrictions on a firm’s stock decreases its corporate bond spreads. This effect is stronger for firms with less transparency or lower credit ratings. Our evidence suggests that the effect is likely due to improved stock price informativeness.

Keywords: Margin; Short selling; Informativeness; Quasi-natural experiment; China.

JEL Classification: G12, G15, G18

Suggested Citation

Wang, Shujing and Yan, Hongjun and Zhong, Ninghua and Tang, Yizhou, The Indirect Effects of Trading Restrictions (March 18, 2022). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3333403 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3333403

Shujing Wang

Tongji University ( email )

1239 Siping Road
Shanghai, 200092
China

Hongjun Yan (Contact Author)

DePaul University ( email )

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Chicago, IL 60604
United States

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Ninghua Zhong

Tongji University - School of Economics and Management ( email )

Tongji A Building,
No.1 Zhangwu Road
Shanghai, Shanghai 200092
China

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Yizhou Tang

Tongji University ( email )

1239 Siping Road
Shanghai, 200092
China

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