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Negative Activism, Barbara A. Bliss, Peter Molk, Frank Partnoy
Negative Activism, Barbara A. Bliss, Peter Molk, Frank Partnoy
UF Law Faculty Publications
Shareholder activism has become one of the most important and widely studied topics in law and finance. To date, popular and academic accounts have focused on what we call “positive activism,” where activists seek to profit from positive changes in the share prices of targeted firms. In this Article, we undertake the first comprehensive study of positive activism’s mirror image, which we term “negative activism.” Whereas positive activists focus on increasing share prices, negative activists take short positions to profit from decreasing share prices. We develop a descriptive typology of three categories of negative activism and use a private database …