Insider Trading in Takeover Targets

By Anup Agrawal, Tareque Nasser. 2012

156 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Finance

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Citations in the corpus

• Opportunity makes a thief (2018, background): “To begin with, Agrawal & Nasser (2012) mention the intense investor focus on trades reported by registered insiders, suggests that these investors believe that these trades to be informed.”
• Corporate governance and the profitability of insider trading (2016, unknown): “…market participants and thus enables them to extract private benefits (e.g., Seyhun 1986; Fishman and Hagerty, 1992; Bettis et al., 2000; Jagolinzer et al., 2011; Agrawal and Nasser, 2012; Kraft et al., 2014; Lee et al., 2014; Agrawal and Cooper, 2015; Aitken et al., 2015; Hillier et al., 2015).”
• Insider Trading Before Accounting Scandals (2015, background): “But insiders appear to refrain from profitable active trading before other major events such as 5 mergers (see Seyhun (1990) for acquiring firms, and Agrawal and Jaffe (1995) and Agrawal and Nasser (2012) for target firms).”