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The signaling hypothesis suggests that firms have incentives to underprice their initial public offerings (IPOs) to signal their quality to the outside investors and to issue seasoned equity (SEO) at more favorable terms. While the initial empirical evidence on the signaling hypothesis was weak,...
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This paper conjectures that insiders exploit their stock's mispricing after earnings announcements to make profitable trades. We design two sets of tests to provide evidence of insider trading on mispricing of their stock. First, insiders' purchases and sales are profitable both after positive...
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