Information content of insider trades before and after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

Accounting Review

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 419-446

  Brochet, Francois ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information content; Insider trading; Sarbanes Oxley Act

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951833874     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2010.85.2.419     Document Type: Article

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