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Insider trading, costly monitoring, and managerial incentives

Abstract:

We derive conditions under which permitting manager “insiders” to trade on personal account increases the equilibrium level of output and the welfare of shareholders. These increases are produced by two effects of insider trading. First, insider trading impounds information about hidden managerial actions into asset prices. This impounding of information allows shareholders to make better personal portfolio-allocation decisions. Second, allowing insider trading can induce managers to increase...

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Publication date:
2001-01-01
UUID:
uuid:c7dc9c9d-9cde-464f-8628-9bd98a8ad9b6
Local pid:
oai:eureka.sbs.ox.ac.uk:1122
Deposit date:
2011-11-10

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