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Is insider trading politically informative?

open access: yesBorsa Istanbul Review
This study examines whether insider trading is politically informative and presents some evidence to hedge against firm-level political risk. Using quarterly data on U.S.
Zhenjun Li, Zulong Su, Lijun Wei
doaj   +1 more source

THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
wiley   +1 more source

Pre-Bid Run-Ups Ahead of Canadian Takeovers: How Big Is the Problem? [PDF]

open access: yes
The authors study the price--volume dynamics ahead of the first public announcement of a takeover for 420 Canadian firms from 1985 to 2002. Pre-bid price run-ups in a target firm's shares may be caused by some combination of information leakage due to ...
Maksym Padalko, Michael R. King
core  

The Discreet Trader [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper examines insider trading, specifically trades by corporate insiders around quarterly earnings announcements. Announcements were broken up into three categories: earnings above analyst expectations, earnings below expectations, and earnings in ...
Wing, Seth
core   +1 more source

Skilled for Whom? Immigration Policy, Racial Capitalism, and the Reproduction of Inequality in Britain

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the UK's 2025 Immigration White Paper as a critical site for understanding how immigration policy functions as an instrument of racial capitalism. Drawing on Critical Race Theory, the theory of social reproduction, and intersectionality, it interrogates how the state's construction of the ‘skilled migrant’ operates as a ...
Muhammad Abdul Aziz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Insiders Traded before Rules [PDF]

open access: yes
: U.K. company insiders, such as directors, were legally allowed to trade in the shares of their own companies up until the Companies Act of 1980. We investigate the trading behaviour of directors over the period 1893 to 1907 in the U.K. Although insider
Braggion, F., Moore, L.
core   +1 more source

Family Matters: Exploring the Link Between Parental and Executive Financial Misconduct

open access: yesJournal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a novel data set of misconduct records for Finnish CEOs and directors and their parents, we explore whether corporate executives’ financial misconduct is associated with similar behavior by their parents. Controlling for various other factors of executive financial misconduct, we find that executives are significantly more likely to ...
JENNI KALLUNKI   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Informed Trade of Earnings Announcements

open access: yesJournal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how market participants trade on private information about firm fundamentals using the largest known case of informed trade of earnings announcements. From 2011 to 2015, a cartel of sophisticated traders illegally obtained early access to and traded on over 1,000 firm earnings announcements.
CHLOE XIE
wiley   +1 more source

Repercussão do insider trading ilegal no mercado de capitais e o grau de penalidade: um comparativo entre Brasil e EUA

open access: yesEnfoque
Objetivo: Este estudo tem por objetivo analisar a relação entre a repercussão do insider trading ilegal no mercado de capitais e o grau de penalidade em companhias brasileiras e norte americanas. Método: Essa pesquisa se caracteriza como descritiva, com
Ana Flávia Albuquerque Ventura   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Correctional officers and drug smuggling: Boundary work, horizontal surveillance, and cultural responses to drug entry

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Drug entry into prisons represents a serious issue for both incarcerated people and prison staff. Although substances enter prisons in many ways, staff drug smuggling represents a consistent problem facing correctional institutions globally. We draw on 131 interviews with correctional officers (COs) working in four Western Canadian prisons to ...
William J. Schultz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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