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Asset Pricing with Costly Short Sales

Hugonnier, Julien  
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Prieto, Rodolfo
May 1, 2025
Management Science

We study a dynamic general equilibrium model with costly-to-short stocks and heterogeneous beliefs. Costly short sales drive a wedge between the valuation of assets that promise identical cash flows but that are subject to different trading arrangements. In particular, we show that the price of an asset is given by the risk-adjusted present value of its future cash flows, which include both dividends and an endogenous lending yield that we characterize explicitly. This valuation formula implies that stocks with low and high shorting costs should offer similar risk-return trade-off once returns are appropriately adjusted for lending revenues and thus, sheds light on recent empirical findings about the explanatory power of shorting costs in the cross-section of returns.

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research article
DOI
10.1287/mnsc.2023.01887
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-105004735143

Author(s)
Hugonnier, Julien  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Prieto, Rodolfo

Finance Area

Date Issued

2025-05-01

Published in
Management Science
Volume

71

Issue

5

Start page

3768

End page

3789

Subjects

dynamic equilibrium

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heterogeneous beliefs

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securities lending

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shorting fees

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
SFI-JH  
FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales

European Finance Association 2020

2020 Swiss Finance Institute

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May 19, 2025
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