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Schrödinger’s Hacker: Insider Trading and Data Breaches

Data breaches are increasingly common in our world. While computers and the Internet have created new opportunities to collect, store, and transmit information, they have also created new vulnerabilities. Data...

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Eric C. Chaffee

Insider Trading and the Public Enforcement of Private Prohibitions: Some Complications in Enforcing Simple Rules for a Complex World

In an article forthcoming in the European Journal of Law & Economics, I argue that, even if we accept the argument made by Manne, Epstein and others that...

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Robert T. Miller

At the Early Dawn of the Modern Regulation of Financial Markets: The Villainy of Stock-Jobbers (1701) and The Anatomy of Exchange Alley (1719) by Daniel Defoe

In the same year Robinson Crusoe (1719) is delivered to the press, Defoe publishes a truly magnificent pamphlet (titled ‘The Anatomy of Exchange Alley: or a System of Stock Jobbing’)...

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Filippo Annunziata

GCGC/ECGI Global Webinar Series - Insider Trading Data Reveals Pandemic Is a Time for Questioning, Not Answering

Following news reports about executives selling shares in their corporations to avoid losses due to the pandemic, a new study takes a closer look at insider trades and finds that...

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Dealing with Corporate Scandal under European Market Abuse Law: The Case of VW

For many years, the continuous disclosure of material information by issuers has been an especially contested topic in financial regulation. The ongoing €9 billion shareholder litigation in the...

26 February 2019

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Mario Hössl-Neumann

Andreas Baumgartner

Insider Trading: Are Insolvent Firms Different?

Are insolvent firms different from solvent firms with respect to insider trading law and policy? Formally, the law does not change. But economic realities and non-securities law duties do. As...

17 December 2018

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Andrew Verstein

Insider Trading and Networked Directors

Executive and non-executive directors with access to private and price-sensitive information have, as insiders, an advantage over other investors when trading in the shares of their firm. Even if insiders...

24 September 2018

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Disgorgement After Kokesh – Evidence from Insider Trading

For about 50 years – at least since Texas Gulf Sulphur – the SEC has ordered defendants to disgorge their profits from transactions that violated the securities laws. Despite disgorgement’s...

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Preserving Capital Markets Efficiency in the High-Frequency Trading Era

Due to technological innovation and automation, trading on equity markets has changed dramatically during the past twenty years. Algorithmic and High-Frequency Trading (HFT) have come to equally characterize U.S. and...

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Giovanni Strampelli

Market Abuse Rules in the Era of Financial Innovation: A Recent Book on the European Legislative Framework

On July 3, 2016 the entire text of Regulation (EU) no. 596/2014 (‘Market Abuse Regulation’: see here and here) has become fully applicable in the European...

15 February 2018

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Marco Ventoruzzo

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