The impact of personal attributes on corporate insider trading

Journal of Corporate Finance

Volumn 30, Issue , 2015, Pages 150-167

  Hillier, David ^a   Korczak, Adriana ^b   Korczak, Piotr ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abnormal returns; Fixed effects; Insider trading

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920884283     PISSN: 09291199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2014.12.003     Document Type: Article

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