Research handbook on insider trading
By: edited by Stephen M. Bainbridge, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Series: Research handbooks in corporate law and governance; Research handbooks in corporate law and governance
Publisher: Edward Elgar; Edward Elgar Pub; Brand: Edward Elgar Pub
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 485
ISBN-13: 9780857931849
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Insider trading in securities; Law and legislation
Description: The Handbook 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 enforced in the world. Using this section as a foundation, contributors go on to discuss several specific court cases as well as important developments in empirical research on the subject. The Handbook concludes with a section devoted to international perspectives, providing insight into insider trading laws in China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the European Union.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An overview of insider trading law and policy: an introduction to the Research Handbook on Insider Trading / -- Stephen M. Bainbridge; title: Launching the insider trading revolution: SEC v. Capital Gains Research Bureau  -- A.C. Pritchard; title: What were they thinking? Insider trading and the scienter requirement  -- Donald C. Langevoort; title: Entrepreneurship, compensation, and the corporation  -- Henry G. Manne; title: Regulating insider trading in the post- fiduciary duty era: equal access or property rights?  -- Stephen M. Bainbridge; title: The Facebook effect: secondary markets and insider trading in today's startup environment  -- Stephen F. Diamond; title: Regulation FD: an alternative approach to addressing information asymmetry  -- Jill Fisch; title: Decision theory and the case for an optional disclosure- based regime for regulating insider trading  -- Thomas A. Lambert; title: Applying insider trading law to congressmen, government officials, and the political intelligence industry  -- J.W. Verret; title: What governmental insider trading teaches us about corporate insider trading  -- Sung Hui Kim; title: A portrait of the insider trader as a woman -- Joan MacLeod Heminway.; title: Has illegal insider trading become more rampant in the United States? Empirical evidence from takeovers  -- Laura Nyantung Beny and H. Nejat Seyhun; title: The changing demand for insider trading regulation  -- M. Todd Henderson; title: Insider trading: what is seen and what is not seen  -- Alexandre Padilla; title: The political economy of insider trading laws and enforcement: law vs. politics? International evidence  -- Laura Nyantung Beny; title: The regulation of insider trading in China: law and enforcement  -- Hui Huang; title: Punishing possession: China's all- embracing insider trading enforcement regime  -- Nicholas Calcina Howson; title: Insider trading regulation in Japan  -- J. Mark Ramseyer --Insider trading in Australia / -- Keith Kendall and Gordon Walker; title: Insider trading law in New Zealand  -- Gordon Walker and Andrew F. Simpson; title: UK insider dealing and market abuse law: strengthening regulatory law to combat market misconduct  -- Kern Alexander; title: Insider trading in European law  -- Katja Langenbucher; title: Takeover bids and insider trading -- Matthijs Nelemans and Michael Schouten.