We examine the impact of stock exchange trading rules and surveillance on the frequency and severity of suspected insider trading cases in 22 stock exchanges around the world over the period January 2003 through June 2011. Using new indices for market manipulation, insider trading, and...

The Volume-Synchronized Probability of Informed Trading (VPIN) metric is proposed by Easley et al. (2011, 2012) as a real-time measure of order flow toxicity in an electronic trading market. This paper examines the performance of VPIN around inventory announcements and price jumps in crude oil...

This study first establishes a causal relation between insider trading and the likelihood of stock price crash occurrence, and then investigates potential channels through which the former influences the latter. Exploiting the initial enforcement of insider trading laws in a country as a natural...