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An Empirical Analysis of Legal Insider Trading in the Netherlands

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  • Hans Degryse
  • Frank de Jong
  • Jérémie Lefebvre

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In this paper, we employ a registry of legal insider trading for Dutch listed firms to investigate the information content of trades by corporate insiders. Using a standard event-study methodology, we examine short-term stock price behavior around trades. We find that purchases are followed by economically large abnormal returns. This result is strongest for purchases by top executives and for small market capitalization firms, which is consistent with the hypothesis that legal insider trading is an important channel through which information flows to the market. We analyze also the impact of the implementation of the Market Abuse Directive (European Union Directive 2003/6/EC), which strengthens the existing regulation in the Netherlands. We show that the new regulation reduced the information content of sales by top executives.

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Paper provided by CESifo Group Munich in its series CESifo Working Paper Series with number 2687.

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Date of creation: 2009
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Handle: RePEc:ces:ceswps:_2687

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  1. Nicholas Dorn, 2011. "The metamorphosis of insider trading in the face of regulatory enforcement," Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, Emerald Group Publishing, vol. 19(1), pages 75-84, February.
  2. Kaspar Dardas & Andre Güttler, 2011. "Are directors’ dealings informative? Evidence from European stock markets," Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, Springer, vol. 25(2), pages 111-148, June.

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