Author Archives: Anisur Rahman

Does Board Independence Reduce Informed Short Selling Prior to Earnings Announcements? Evidence from Quasi-Natural Experiment

By | October 16, 2019

Courtesy of Suchismita Mishra, Anisur Rahman, and Arun Upadhyay In a new paper, we argue that the transparency created by independent boards prevents informed short sellers from taking advantage of nonpublic information, and thus results in a lower likelihood of surprise predictions of informed short selling prior to upcoming earnings announcements. Short sellers—those who sell… Read More »