Insider trading restrictions and corporate risk-taking

Pacific Basin Finance Journal

Volumn 35, Issue , 2015, Pages 125-142

  Kusnadi, Yuanto ^a  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cross country study; Insider trading restrictions; Risk taking incentives

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947870695     PISSN: 0927538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pacfin.2014.11.004     Document Type: Article

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