Legal risk and insider trading

Do illegal insiders internalize legal risk? We address this question with hand-collected data from 530 SEC (the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission) investigations. Using two plausibly exogenous shocks to expected penalties, we show that insiders trade less aggressively and earlier and concentra...

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Main Authors: KACPERCZYK, Marcin, PAGNOTTA, Emiliano Sebastian
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2024
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/7420
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/8419/viewcontent/LegalRiskInsiderTrading_pvoa_cc_by.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English
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