Claremont Colleges Scholarship @ Claremont CMC Senior Theses CMC Student Scholarship 2012 A Study in Market Micromanagement: The Asymmetrical Effects of the 2008 Short Sale Ban on Stocks With and Without Traded Options James W. Weyerhaeuser Claremont McKenna College Recommended Citation Weyerhaeuser, James W., "A Study in Market Micromanagement: The Asymmetrical Effects of the 2008 Short Sale Ban on Stocks With and Without Traded Options" (2012). CMC Senior Theses. Paper 487. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/487 This Open Access Senior Thesis is brought to you by Scholarship@Claremont. It has been accepted for inclusion in this collection by an authorized administrator. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. CLAREMONT McKENNA COLLEGE A STUDY IN MARKET MICROMANAGEMENT: THE ASYMMETRICAL EFFECTS OF THE 2008 SHORT SALE BAN ON STOCKS WITH AND WITHOUT TRADED OPTIONS SUBMITTED TO: PROFESSOR RICHARD C. K. BURDEKIN AND PROFESSOR JANET K. SMITH AND DEAN GREGORY HESS BY JAMES WALKER WEYERHAEUSER FOR SENIOR THESIS FALL 2012 DECEMBER 3, 2012 Acknowledgements First and foremost I would like to thank my family, without all of you I would never have had the opportunity to write this thesis. You all knew long before I did what going to a fantastic school like this would mean for me down the road. You refused to let me take the easy way out in anything I did, without that push I never would have made it here. Thank you to Sarah, David, Kaylee, Natalie and Tommy. Special thanks to my mom, Sarah, for the countless hours assisting this paper in particular. Professor Janet Smith – I grow more and more appreciative of your research methods class as I watch my peers scramble to complete their thesis in the final days.