Corporate governance rules and insider trading profits

Review of Finance

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 67-108

  Cziraki, Peter ^a   De Goeij, Peter ^b   Renneboog, Luc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

G14; G34; M52

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896775727     PISSN: 15723097     EISSN: 1573692X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rof/rft001     Document Type: Article

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