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The Law and Economics of Insider Trading

Author(s) -

Frank Sensenbrenner,

Margaret Ryznar

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

ssrn electronic journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1556-5068

DOI - 10.2139/ssrn.2604013

Subject(s) - insider trading , law and economics , law , economics , business , political science , financial economics

Several recent high-profile insider trading losses have not stopped the federal government from aggressively prosecuting insider trading cases. The first of its kind, this law review article offers both a legal analysis and an empirical analysis that would aid the government in detecting and prosecuting insider trading. Specifically, this article finds that insider traders move prices more than non-insider trades of similar characteristics and insiders trade on high-volume days based on a dataset generated from SEC litigation releases

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