Peter N. Dixon Ph.D.
Peter N. Dixon Ph.D.
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I am a Financial Economist working in microstructure, short selling, securities lending, and information economics
I am a Financial Economist working in microstructure, short selling, securities lending, and information economics
Employment
Employment
Senior Financial Economist - United States Securities and Exchange Commission: April 2025-Present
Financial Economist - United States Securities and Exchange Commission: May 2018-April 2025
Financial Analyst - Intermountain Healthcare: June 2011-June 2012
Education
Education
Ph.D. Finance - University of Tennessee (2018)
MS Statistics-Econometrics - University of Utah (2011)
BS Financial Economics - Brigham Young University-Idaho (2009)
Curriculum Vitae - Updated September 2026
Research
Research
You can Only Lend What you Own: Inferring Daily Institutional Trading from Security Lending Supply - With Yashar Barardehi, Zi Da, and Junbo Wang
Revise and Resubmit - Journal of Finance
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Shrinking the Market-Inside-the-Market: The Effects of Reducing the Round Lot - With Su Li, John Ritter, and Kevin Roshak
Detecting Informed Trading Risk from Undercutting Activity in Limit Order Markets - With Yashar Barardehi and Qiyu Liu - Journal of Finance (2026)
When Does the Tick Size Help or Harm Market Quality? Evidence from the Tick Size Pilot - With Yashar Barardehi, Qiyu Liu, and Ariel Lohr - Journal of Financial Markets (2025)
Business Cycle Variation in Short Selling Strategies: Picking During Expansions and Timing During Recessions - With Eric Kelley - Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (2022)
To Own or Not to Own: Stock Loans Around Dividend Payments- With Corbin Fox and Eric Kelley - Journal of Financial Economics (2021)
Why Do Short Selling Bans Decrease Price Efficiency and Increase Adverse Selection - Review of Asset Pricing Studies (2021)
Selected Policy Work
Selected Policy Work
Amendments to Rule 611 – Proposed Recission of Order Protection Rule
Amendments to Rule 610(e) – Proposed Recission of Prohibition on Locked and Crossed Markets
Rule 612 - Tick size - Lead Economist
Rule 610 - Exchange transaction fees - Lead Economist
Rule 10c-1a – Securities lending transaction tape – Lead Economist
Rule 13f-2 – Short selling reporting
Rule 205 – CAT data amendments
SEC Order to Improve Governance of Market Data - Lead Economist
Report Equity and Options Market Structure Conditions in Early 2021 (GameStop Report) - Lead Economist
Amendment to Rule 613 - CAT Security amendments
Rule 610T – Transaction fee pilot – Lead Economist
SEC Statement on market structure innovation for thinly traded securities – Lead Economist
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