Hole in the Wall: Informed Short Selling Ahead of Private Placements

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We thank an anonymous referee, Sjoerd van Bekkum, Dion Bongaerts, Howard Chan, Carole Comerton-Forde, Marie Dutordoir, Robert Faff, Neal Galpin, Ning Gong, Bruce Grundy, Abe de Jong, Craig Lewis, Chris Malloy, Nadia Massoud, Lyndon Moore, Marieke van der Poel, Donald Stokes, Xiao Xiao, David Yermack, Marius Ziegan, Eric Zitzewitz and seminar participants at the University of Melbourne, Deakin University, Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Otago, Manchester Business School, Monash University, Luxembourg School of Finance, the British Accounting and Finance Association Meetings, the LaTrobe Business School Research Symposium and the four Nations Cup 2014 for useful comments. Verwijmeren thanks NWO for financial support through a Vidi grant.