Shortselling are still popular here, as it is pretty much everywhere else. I don't think there have been other restrictions on standard shortselling in the western world then those countrys that had a temporary ban on shorting banks during the low of the so-called "financial crisis". But naked short ain't legal in Norway (shorting stocks you haven't allready borrowed), but not sure how well that is enforced. At least among the private investors, it ain't that many who actually know how to short, and far less that know how to do a naked-short.

But _talk_ about shorting and manipulation, thats something at least the norwegian private investors are 'good' at.