The world price of insider trading

被引:626
作者
Bhattacharya, U [1 ]
Daouk, H [1 ]
机构
[1] Indiana Univ, Kelley Sch Business, Bloomington, IN 47401 USA
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10.1111/1540-6261.00416
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F8 [财政、金融];
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0202 ;
摘要
The existence and the enforcement of insider trading laws in stock markets is a phenomenon of the 1990s. A study of the 103 countries that have stock markets reveals that insider trading laws exist in 87 of them, but enforcement-as evidenced by prosecutions-has taken place in only 38 of them. Before 1990, the respective numbers were 34 and 9. We find that the cost of equity in a country, after controlling for a number of other variables, does not change after the introduction of insider trading laws, but decreases significantly after the first prosecution.
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页数:34
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