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On the Ethics of "Non-Corporate" Insider Trading. [PDF]
The ethical considerations of insider trading have been widely debated in the academic literature (see e.g., Moore in J Bus Ethics 9(3):171–182, 1990). In 2013, the STOCK Act, which was initially passed to mitigate insider trading by government officials,
Blau BM, Griffith TG, Whitby RJ.
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Geographic connections to China and insider trading at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic [PDF]
The sudden and exogenous nature of the COVID-19 crash provides a unique identification opportunity to study insiders’ informational advantages. We find that the sales of insiders at firms with connections to China were significantly more profitable ...
Henry E, Plesko G, Rawson C.
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Legal Risk and Insider Trading
Do illegal insiders internalize legal risk? We address this question with hand‐collected data from 530 SEC investigations. Using two plausibly exogenous shocks to expected penalties, we show that insiders trade less aggressively and earlier and ...
Marcin T. Kacperczyk +1 more
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Fragmented Securities Regulation, Information-Processing Costs, and Insider Trading
Using a unique setting where stand-alone banks submit filings to bank regulators instead of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), we examine the consequences of fragmented securities regulation for information-processing costs and ...
Sehwa Kim, Seil Kim
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Political Connections and White-Collar Crime: Evidence from Insider Trading in France
This paper investigates whether political connections affect individuals’ propensity to engage in white-collar crime. We identify connections by campaign donations or direct friendships and use the 2007 French Presidential election as a marker of ...
Thomas Bourveau +2 more
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We examine insider trading profitability and common identity between insiders and top executives. We argue that common gender and the resulting social connections influence access to private information, where insiders benefit from greater information ...
I. Clacher +3 more
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Price Revelation from Insider Trading: Evidence from Hacked Earnings News
From 2010 to 2015, a group of traders illegally accessed earnings information before their public release by hacking several newswire services. We use this scheme as a natural experiment to investigate how informed investors select among private signals ...
Pat Akey +2 more
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Insider trading under trading ban regulation in China’s A-share market
This study examines the effects of China’s 2008 trading ban regulation on the insider trading of large shareholders in China’s A-share market. It finds no evidence of insider trading during the ban period (one month before the announcement of a financial
Chafen Zhu, Li Wang
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Ethical Orientation and Personal Benefit in Insider Trading
Most of people think insider trading is an unfair activity because the parties that involved have unequal information. In a certain condition, unequal information used in a transaction is a fraud.
Sekar Akrom Faradiza +1 more
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Signaling or insider opportunism: an investigation of repurchase activity in Vietnam
This paper examines whether share repurchase announcements are signals of undervaluation or insiders’ opportunistic activities by investigating insider trading patterns surrounding buyback announcements in Vietnam. Consistent with the insider opportunism
Ly Thi Hai Tran, Thao Thi Phuong Hoang
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