Insider trading, earnings quality, and accrual mispricing

MD Beneish, ME Vargus - The accounting review, 2002 - publications.aaahq.org
This paper investigates whether insider trading is informative about earnings quality and the
valuation implications of accruals. We show that (1) the one‐year‐ahead persistence of …

Managerial ownership structure and earnings management

CY Yang, HN Lai, B Leing Tan - Journal of Financial Reporting and …, 2008 - emerald.com
This study examines the relation between managerial ownership structure and earnings
management. Unlike previous research which treats insiders as a homogeneous group, we …

[BOOK][B] Investment intelligence from insider trading

HN Seyhun - 2000 - books.google.com
Learn how to profit from information about insider trading. The term insider trading refers to
the stock transactions of the officers, directors, and large shareholders of a firm. Many …

Disclosure quality and management trading incentives

JL Rogers - Journal of Accounting Research, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines whether managers strategically alter disclosure “quality” in response to
personal incentives, specifically those derived from trading on their own account. Using …

Reducing the profitability of corporate insider trading through pretrading disclosure

JM Fried - S. Cal. L. Rev., 1997 - HeinOnline
Over the last six decades, the federal government has constructed an extensive system of
civil and criminal laws designed to reduce the ability of" corporate insiders"'to make profits …

Insider trading and earnings management in distressed firms

MD Beneish, E Press, ME Vargus - Contemporary Accounting …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we investigate debt contract and insider trading incentives for
incomeincreasing earnings management in a sample of 462 firms that experienced …

An investigation of insider trading profits in the Spanish stock market

EB Del Brio, A Miguel, J Perote - The Quarterly Review of Economics and …, 2002 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the profitability and information content of insider trading in the
Spanish stock market. Our results show that insiders earn excess profits when investing on …

Insider trading: a review of theory and empirical work

A Doffou - Journal of Accounting and Finance Research, 2003 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper analyzes the academic and regulatory studies on insider trading available in the
finance literature. First, a review of the laws regulating insider trading is provided. The paper …

[BOOK][B] Personal finance and investments: a behavioural finance perspective

K Redhead - 2008 - taylorfrancis.com
In this book, the author draws from finance, psychology, economics, and other disciplines in
business and the social sciences, recognising that personal finance and investments are …

Insider Ownership Structure and Firm Performance: a productivity perspective study in Taiwan's electronics industry

HJ Sheu, CY Yang - Corporate Governance: An International …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
In the context of agency theory (Jensen and Meckling, 1976. Journal of Financial
Economics, 3, 305–360), how insider stock ownership relates to firm performance is …