Most corporate governance research focuses on the behavior of chief executive officers, board members, institutional shareholders, and other similar parties. Little research focuses on the impact of executives whose primary responsibility is to enforce and shape corporate governance inside the firm. This study examines the role of the general counsel (GC) in mitigating informed trading by corporate insiders. We find that insider trading profits and the predictive ability of insider trades for future operating performance are generally higher when insiders trade within firm-imposed restricted trade windows. However, when GC approval is required to execute a trade, insiders’ trading profits and the predictive ability of insider trades for fut...
The thesis consists of three independent and interrelated research papers that contribute to a bette...
Corporate insiders, i.e. the officers and directors of publicly traded companies, play an important ...
The collapse of prominent companies coupled with the increasing number of lawsuits against the direc...
Most corporate governance research focuses on the behavior of chief exec-utive officers, board membe...
This paper examines the role of corporate governance in limiting insiders ’ ability to profit from t...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2008.Includes bi...
This paper analyzes the impact of insider trading legislation on corporate governance. In a context ...
Using a sample of U.S. firms over the period 1996–2014, this paper examines whether insider trading ...
This article characterizes insider trading in controlled firms as an agency problem. Using a standa...
We investigate patterns of abnormal stock performance around insider trades on the Dutch market. Lis...
This article characterizes insider trading as an agency problem in firms that have a controlling sha...
We study whether firms that voluntarily restrict insider trading have lower incentives for earnings ...
Using a sample of 2,827 firms from 21 countries we examine whether insider trading laws achieve the ...
The separation of ownership and management of the company implicates the agency problem of insider d...
This study investigates the impact monitoring by the board of directors had on the incidence of insi...
The thesis consists of three independent and interrelated research papers that contribute to a bette...
Corporate insiders, i.e. the officers and directors of publicly traded companies, play an important ...
The collapse of prominent companies coupled with the increasing number of lawsuits against the direc...
Most corporate governance research focuses on the behavior of chief exec-utive officers, board membe...
This paper examines the role of corporate governance in limiting insiders ’ ability to profit from t...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2008.Includes bi...
This paper analyzes the impact of insider trading legislation on corporate governance. In a context ...
Using a sample of U.S. firms over the period 1996–2014, this paper examines whether insider trading ...
This article characterizes insider trading in controlled firms as an agency problem. Using a standa...
We investigate patterns of abnormal stock performance around insider trades on the Dutch market. Lis...
This article characterizes insider trading as an agency problem in firms that have a controlling sha...
We study whether firms that voluntarily restrict insider trading have lower incentives for earnings ...
Using a sample of 2,827 firms from 21 countries we examine whether insider trading laws achieve the ...
The separation of ownership and management of the company implicates the agency problem of insider d...
This study investigates the impact monitoring by the board of directors had on the incidence of insi...
The thesis consists of three independent and interrelated research papers that contribute to a bette...
Corporate insiders, i.e. the officers and directors of publicly traded companies, play an important ...
The collapse of prominent companies coupled with the increasing number of lawsuits against the direc...