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Trading ahead of barbarians’ arrival at the gate: insider trading on noninside information

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  • Chabakauri, Georgy
  • Fos, Vyacheslav
  • Jiang, Wei

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Privately informed about firm fundamentals, corporate insiders detect activism-motivated trades better than other traders. This paper solves the model of this novel form of insider trading motivated by non-insider information and presents empirical evidence. Corporate insiders preserve their ownership (restraining from selling or buying more) before activist interventions go public to benefit from price appreciation and to defend their private benefits of control. Surveillance technology facilitates response to pre-disclosure activist trading, especially when positive information about firm fundamentals is absent, supporting the mechanism that insiders attribute order flows to activist interest when speculation on fundamentals can be ruled out.

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  • Chabakauri, Georgy & Fos, Vyacheslav & Jiang, Wei, 2025. "Trading ahead of barbarians’ arrival at the gate: insider trading on noninside information," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 127189, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    • Handle: RePEc:ehl:lserod:127189
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    • F3 - International Economics - - International Finance
    • G3 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance

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