Do corporate insiders circumvent insider trading regulations? the case of stock repurchases

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 81-96

  Richardson Pettit, R ^a   Yulong, M A ^b   Jia, H E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b ALABAMA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dutch auction repurchase announcements; Fixed price repurchase announcements; Insider trading

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043184904     PISSN: 0924865X     EISSN: 15737179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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