# Prof. Alexander Ljungqvist discusses short-selling firms

1 Faculty News July 9, 2014 ![The Wall Street Journal logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_035942.jpg?itok=sIDv5_PG)>

Excerpt from [The Wall Street Journal](http://online.wsj.com/articles/gotham-city-research-works-in-the-shadows-1404842379) -- "'These guys have established quite a lot of credibility,' said [Alexander Ljungqvist](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/alexander-ljungqvist), a professor of finance and entrepreneurship at New York University's Stern School of Business who has written about short sellers. 'Investors clearly are taking them seriously,' he said."

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