Barbara, Petracci - In: International Review of Law and Economics 31 (2011) 3, pp. 196-204
-regulation geared at avoiding market abuses: the use of blackout periods during which insiders are temporarily prohibited from trading … on the market. Data concerning corporate characteristics, blackout periods, and internal dealing, seem to indicate that … companies with a large number of independent directors and a consistent ability to monitor are more likely to adopt blackout …