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The sovereign debt most targeted by short-sellers is not what you might expect, according to DataExplorers.

We’re not entirely sure of the methodology here, but the short-selling specialist has presented this interesting chart. It shows short-selling for selected sovereign debt (excluding sales as part of repo transactions) from smaller and developing economies:

So Romania topped the short-selling scale in January 2009, and is even more of a top-short now. Slovenia and Lithuania are next, followed by Poland, Slovakia and Hungary.

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2010/02/04/141226/the-scale-of-short-selling-sovereign-debt/