Research handbook on insider trading / edited by Stephen M. Bainbridge.

Format:

Book

Series:

Research Handbooks in Corporate Law and Governance Series

Reasearch Handbooks in Corporate Law and Governance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Insider trading in securities--Law and legislation.

Insider trading in securities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (497 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In most capital markets, insider trading is the most common violation of securities law. It is also the most well known, inspiring countless movie plots and attracting scholars with a broad range of backgrounds and interests, from pure legal doctrine to empirical analysis to complex economic theory. This volume brings together original cutting-edge research in these and other areas written by leading experts in insider trading law and economics. The book begins with a section devoted to legal issues surrounding the US's ban on insider trading, which is one of the oldest and most energetically

Contents:

CONTENTS; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; 1. An Overview of insider trading law and policy: an introduction to the Research Handbook on Insider Trading; PART 1 US LAW AND POLICY; 2. Launching the insider trading revolution: SEC v. Capital Gains Research Bureau; 3. What were they thinking? Insider trading and the scienter requirement; 4. Entrepreneurship, compensation, and the corporation; 5. Regulating insider trading in the post-fiduciary duty era: equal access or property rights?

6. The Facebook effect: secondary markets and insider trading in today's startup environment7. Regulation FD: an alternative approach to addressing information asymmetry; 8. Decision theory and the case for an optional disclosure-base regime for regulating insider trading; PART 2 STUDIES OF SPECIFIC DEFENDANTS; 9. Applying insider trading law to congressmen, government officials, and the political intelligence industry; 10. What govenrmental insider trading teaches us about corporate insider trading; 11. A portrait of the insider trader as a woman; PART 3 EMPIRICAL RESEARCH

12. Has illegal insider trading become more rampant in the United States? Empirical evidence from takeovers13. The changing demand for insider trading regulation; 14. Insider trading: what is seen and what is not seen; 15 The political economy of insider trading laws and enforcment: law vs. politics? International evidence; PART 4 GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES; Section A Asia; 16. The regulation of insider trading in China: law and enforcement; 17. Punishing possession-China's all-embracing insider trading enforcement regime; 18. Insider trading regulation in Japan; Section B Australia

19. Insider trading in Australia20. Insider trading law in New Zealand; Section C Europe; 21. UK insider dealing and market abuse law: strengthening regulatory law to combat market misconduct; 22. Insider trading in European law; 23. Takeover bds and insider trading; Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed May 28, 2013).

Includes index.

ISBN:

0-85793-185-7

OCLC:

844355174