Asset pricing with costly short sales

Theodoros Evgeniou, Julien Hugonnier and Rodolfo Prieto

No 17099, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: We study a dynamic equilibrium model with costly-to-short stocks and heteroge- neous beliefs. The closed-form solution to the model shows that costly short sales drive a wedge between the valuation of assets that promise identical cash flows but are subject to different trading arrangements. Specifically, we show that the price of an asset is given by the risk-adjusted present value of future cash flows which include both dividends and an endogenous lending yield. This formula implies that returns satisfy a modified capital asset pricing model and sheds light on recent findings about the explanatory power of lending fees in the cross-section of returns. In particular, we show that once returns are appropriately adjusted for lending fees, stocks with low and high shorting costs offer similar risk-return tradeoffs.

Keywords: Shorting costs; Securities lending; Heterogeneous beliefs; Dynamic equilibrium (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D51 D52 G11 G12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-03
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