Estimating the returns to insider trading: A performance-evaluation perspective

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 453-471

  Jeng, Leslie A ^a   Metrick, Andrew ^b   Zeckhauser, Richard ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c NONE

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EID: 0037677733     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/003465303765299936     Document Type: Article

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