Short selling in the Netherlands

An investor is always interested in the return of his investment. Combined with the different risk involved in short selling, it is an interesting subject. Academic literature has often tried to explain changes in return and find relations between the risk, characteristics of the stock and companies and other possible related subjects to the return of the investment. In this research the concept of short selling, the different reasons or motives for short selling will be described. A literature review will describe different aspect of short selling in relation to the market, informed trading and stock return. The objective is to find a relation between short selling and abnormal stock return in the Dutch stock market