This paper investigates how heterogeneous sentiments and perspectives expressed in public online media about the abolition of the Chinese presidential term limit in 2018 may have caused a divergence in investor behavior between the U.S. and China. We document that sentiments expressed in social...

We examine insider trading surrounding takeover rumors in a sample of 1,642 publicly traded U.S. firms. Using difference-in-differences regressions, we find that insider net purchases increase within the year prior to the first publication of a takeover rumor, particularly when rumor articles...

Hardly anything is known about how bond market participants react to insider stock trades. Our study attempts to fill this gap by analyzing the bond market reaction around insider transactions in U.S. firms during the period from 2002 to 2009. Our dataset covers 993 stock purchases and 6,562...