This paper contends that the discount for lack of marketability (DLOM) is the difference between the stock price of a liquid company and an equivalent illiquid company and reflects the lack of a free-trading option that is embedded within a company's stock. Longstaff derived a model that views...

This paper contends that the discount for lack of marketability (DLOM) is the difference between the stock price of a liquid company and an equivalent illiquid company and reflects the lack of a free-trading option that is embedded within a company's stock. Longstaff derived a model that views...

This article analyzes intraday stock price and trading volume reactions to directors' dealings announcements in Germany and the United Kingdom from January 2007 to June 2010. The main findings show that prompt public disclosure of directors' dealings, as mandated by the EU Transparency...