The improper use of inside information, governed by EU Regulation No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on market abuse (MAR) consists of three types of conduct: two of them, known as ‘insider dealing' (or insider trading), are described under Article...

Government agencies routinely allow pre-release access to information to accredited news agencies under embargo agreements. Using high frequency data, we find evidence consistent with informed trading during embargoes of the Federal Open Market Committee's scheduled announcements. The E-mini S&P...

I show that public companies disproportionately disclose positive news on days when corporate executives sell shares under predetermined Rule 10b5-1 plans. I find that the likelihood, share volume and dollar volume of insider sales under 10b5-1 plans are higher when good news is disclosed, and...

I model the investors' costly information acquisition behaviours with strategic communication of asymmetric information in financial markets. I extend the dynamic insider trading model based on Kyle(Econometrica 53 (1985) 1315) to allow for costly, unobservable information acquisition, assuming...

Prior research generally argues that managers issue management earnings forecasts (MFs) to secure capital market benefits (i.e., reduce information asymmetry between managers and investors to lower a firm's cost of capital), to reduce the firm's litigation costs, or to allow managers to trade...