Short-selling and the WTA-WTP gap

Uri Ben-Zion (), Shosh Shahrabani and Tal Shavit ()
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Uri Ben-Zion: Dept. of Economics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

No 706, Working Papers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Economics

Abstract: The experimental results of the current paper reveal positive relations between shortselling bidding prices and the WTA-WTP gap. This result may be explained by the status-quo bias.

Keywords: Lotteries; Experiment; WTA-WTP gap; Short-Selling; Endowment effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2007
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