Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to address the opposing views of the relationship between directors' and officers' liability insurance (D&O insurance) and stock price crash risk in a major Asian emerging stock market. Design/methodology/approach - This paper finds an endogenous...

This study systematically examines the ability of aggregate insider trading to predict future market returns in the Chinese A-share market. After controlling for the contrarian investment strategy, aggregate executive (large shareholder) trading conducted over the past six months can predict 66%...