Deleveraging risk

Richardson, S A, Saffi, P A C and Sigurdsson, K (2017) Deleveraging risk. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 52 (6). pp. 2491-2522. ISSN 0022-1090 OPEN ACCESS

Abstract

Deleveraging risk is the risk attributable to investing in a security held by levered investors. When there is an aggregate negative shock to the availability of funding capital, securities with a greater presence of levered investors experience extreme return realizations as these investors unwind their positions. Using data on equity loans as a proxy for the degree of levered positions in a given stock, we find robust evidence of deleveraging risk. Stocks with a high degree of short selling experience large positive returns and a decrease in short selling around periods of funding capital scarcity.

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© 2017 Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington

This article has been published in a revised form in Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022109017001077. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works.

Date Deposited: 01 Nov 2016 17:58
Date of first compliant deposit: 26 Sep 2016
Subjects: Equity capital
Financial risk
Last Modified: 10 Mar 2024 01:39
URI: https://lbsresearch.london.edu/id/eprint/566
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