Talking up liquidity: Insider trading and investor relations

Journal of Financial Intermediation

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-31

  Hong, Harrison ^a   Huang, Ming ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information disclosure; Insider trading; Investor relations; Liquidity; Newly public firms

Indexed keywords

EID: 11444251630     PISSN: 10429573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfi.2003.08.004     Document Type: Article

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