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No Relationship Between Shorting and Stock Prices

What are your credentials? Can you provide a link to more details on the methodology of the study? Who do you work for? Who funded the study? Do you or your sponsors profit from shorting?

Causality is often difficult to prove. You say: "we did not find any evidence that short selling causes securities prices to fall or to become more volatile." Did you find any evidence that it does not?

Micro caps are easy to manipulate, as the "caps" grow, the harder it is to manipulate -- but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It's just harder to prove.