A Multiple Lender Approach to Understanding Supply and Search in the Equity Lending Market Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Using unique data from 12 lenders, we examine how equity lending fees respond to demand shocks. We find that, when demand is moderate, fees are largely insensitive to demand shocks. However, at high demand levels, further increases in demand lead to significantly higher fees and the extent to which demand shocks impact fees is also related to search frictions in the loan market. Moreover, consistent with search models, we find significant dispersion in loan fees, with this dispersion increasing in loan scarcity and search frictions. Our findings imply that search frictions significantly impact short selling costs. 2013 the American Finance Association.

published proceedings

  • The Journal of Finance

altmetric score

  • 6.5

author list (cited authors)

  • KOLASINSKI, A. C., REED, A. V., & RINGGENBERG, M. C.

citation count

  • 111

publication date

  • April 2013

publisher