Legal insider trading and market efficiency

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1379-1392

  Aktas, Nihat ^a,b   de Bodt, Eric ^a,c   Van Oppens, Hervé ^a  

^a LOUVAIN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Belgium)

^b Europlace Institute of Finance   (France)

^c Lille Graduate School of Management   (France)

Author keywords

Legal insider trading; Market efficiency; Order imbalance; Price discovery

Indexed keywords

EID: 43949098262     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2007.11.003     Document Type: Article

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