Arguments about increased (market based) accounting accruals suggest that the information benefits accrue directly to investors (Barth, 2007; Barth et al., 2008). This paper compares Spanish and Australian accruals as a test of relative information asymmetry, measured by the ability of insiders to...

We investigate the performance and its link with information asymmetry, corporate governance and legal enforcement of insider transactions in 36 countries covering 10 Asian countries, 20 European countries and 6 countries in the rest. The results show that abnormal returns after insider trading...

We examine corporate insider transactions around Sarbanes-Oxley §403 (SOX) regulatory regimes and subsequent Wall Street Journal (WSJ) media postings — and provide new evidence on the benefit/cost trade-off tension between private information transfer and stock trading costs. SOX increased...