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Opportunism as a firm and managerial trait: Predicting insider trading profits and misconduct

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  1. Han-Ching Huang & Ren-Cyuan Chan, 2021. "Decoding insider silence: evidence from China securities market," Journal of Asset Management, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 22(7), pages 581-599, December.
  2. Bijoy Chandra Das, 2025. "Opportunistic Insider Trading During the COVID‐19 Pandemic," Financial Markets, Institutions & Instruments, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 34(3), pages 131-149, August.
  3. Li, Tao & Ji, Yu, 2021. "Institutional ownership and insider trading profitability: Evidence from an emerging market," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 70(C).
  4. Du, Jiangze & Liu, Fule & Hsu, Yuan-Teng & Bui, Dien Giau, 2025. "How do executives respond to biodiversity risk? Evidence from opportunistic stock selling," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 91(C).
  5. Pham, Mia Hang, 2020. "In law we trust: Lawyer CEOs and stock liquidity," Journal of Financial Markets, Elsevier, vol. 50(C).
  6. Hwang, Joon Ho & Kim, Joohwan & Park, Jinwoo, 2021. "Underwriters’ price support regulation and institutional investors’ trading: The case of the putback option," Research in International Business and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 57(C).
  7. Omer N. Gokalp & Sami Keskek & Abdullah Kumas & Marshall A. Geiger, 2020. "Insider trading around auto recalls: Does investor attention matter?," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 55(3), pages 1003-1033, October.
  8. Biggerstaff, Lee & Cicero, David & Wintoki, M. Babajide, 2020. "Insider trading patterns," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 64(C).
  9. Bittner, Christian & Fecht, Falko & Pala, Melissa & Saidi, Farzad, 2022. "Information transmission between banks and the market for corporate control," Discussion Papers 29/2022, Deutsche Bundesbank.
  10. Altanlar, Ali & Amini, Shima & Holmes, Phil & Eshraghi, Arman, 2023. "Opportunism, overconfidence and irrationality: A puzzling triad," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).
  11. Hongquan Li & Yang Yang, 2025. "Does digital transformation drive more comment letters?," Accounting and Finance, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 65(1), pages 647-665, March.
  12. Ling He & Shiyang Hu & Dongmin Kong & Xiao Li, 2025. "Sincere Action or Sweet Talk: How Do Firms Respond to Retail Investors’ Green Appeals?," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 201(1), pages 193-218, October.
  13. Sadok El Ghoul & Omrane Guedhami & Robert Nash & He (Helen) Wang, 2022. "Economic policy uncertainty and insider trading," Journal of Financial Research, Southern Finance Association;Southwestern Finance Association, vol. 45(4), pages 817-854, December.
  14. Allan Hodgson & Michael Seamer & Katherine Uylangco, 2020. "Does stronger corporate governance constrain insider trading? Asymmetric evidence from Australia," Accounting and Finance, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 60(3), pages 2665-2687, September.
  15. Cosemans, Mathijs & Frehen, Rik, 2025. "Strategic insider trading and its consequences for outsiders: Evidence from the eighteenth century," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 164(C).
  16. Batten, Jonathan A. & Liu, Lanlan & Sha, Yezhou, 2026. "Illegal insider trading profitability and the legal environment," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 185(C).
  17. Kun Lu & Xiangke Sun & Yadong Wang & Khaldoon Albitar, 2025. "ESG as a Safeguard: Reducing Executive Opportunistic Behavior in China's A‐Share Market," Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 32(4), pages 4389-4402, July.
  18. Berkman, Henk & Koch, Paul & Westerholm, P. Joakim, 2020. "Inside the director network: When directors trade or hold inside, interlock, and unconnected stocks," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 118(C).
  19. Cheng, Lin & Jin, Qinglu & Ma, Hui, 2023. "Tone emphasis and insider trading," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 80(C).
  20. Chen, Shenglan & Ma, Hui & Wu, Qiang & Zhang, Hao, 2023. "Does common ownership constrain managerial rent extraction? Evidence from insider trading profitability," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 80(C).
  21. Dang, Chongyu & Foerster, Stephen & Li, Zhichuan (Frank) & Tang, Zhenyang, 2021. "Analyst talent, information, and insider trading," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 67(C).
  22. Chen, Yongming & Li, Hui, 2025. "Uncovering the distress anomaly: The role of insider silence and limited investor attention," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 99(C).
  23. Wang, Shaoyi, 2026. "National identity and foreign directors' access to private information," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 96(C).
  24. Luke M. Bennett & Wei Hu, 2023. "Filtration enlargement‐based time series forecast in view of insider trading," Journal of Economic Surveys, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 37(1), pages 112-140, February.
  25. Neupane, Biwesh & Thapa, Chandra & Marshall, Andrew & Neupane, Suman, 2021. "Mimicking insider trades," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 68(C).
  26. Contreras, Harold & Korczak, Adriana & Korczak, Piotr, 2023. "Religion and insider trading profits," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 149(C).
  27. Pham, Man Duy (Marty), 2022. "Management friendship and insider opportunism," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 84(C).
  28. Quentin Dupont & Jonathan M. Karpoff, 2020. "The Trust Triangle: Laws, Reputation, and Culture in Empirical Finance Research," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 163(2), pages 217-238, May.
  29. Lu, Chunyang & Yang, Xingquan, 2024. "Capital market opening and insider trading profitability: Empirical evidence in the context of ‘Mainland China–Hong Kong Stock Connect’," Journal of Asian Economics, Elsevier, vol. 94(C).
  30. Fang, Fei & Meng, Chong & Tang, Zhenyang & Veeren, Parianen, 2025. "Insider risk aversion and trade informativeness: evidence from pre-option-grant selling," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 85(PA).
  31. Fich, Eliezer M. & Parrino, Robert & Tran, Anh L., 2023. "When and how are rule 10b5-1 plans used for insider stock sales?," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 149(1), pages 1-26.
  32. Rwan El‐Khatib & Dobrina Jandik & Tomas Jandik, 2021. "Network centrality, connections, and social capital: Evidence from CEO insider trading gains," The Financial Review, Eastern Finance Association, vol. 56(3), pages 433-457, August.
  33. Dai, Jingwen & Xu, Rong & Zhu, Tianqi & Lu, Chao, 2024. "Common institutional ownership and opportunistic insider selling: Evidence from China," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).
  34. Lin, Le & Li, Nongwen, 2026. "Investor risk concern and opportunistic insider sales," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 205(C).
  35. Das, Bijoy Chandra, 2025. "Stress and Trading Behavior: Informativeness of Insider Trading Around COVID-19 Pandemic," CAFE Working Papers 39, Centre for Accountancy, Finance and Economics (CAFE), Birmingham City Business School, Birmingham City University.
  36. Rahman, Dewan & Kabir, Muhammad & Oliver, Barry, 2021. "Does exposure to product market competition influence insider trading profitability?," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 66(C).
  37. Fu, Xudong & Kong, Lei & Tang, Tian & Yan, Xinyan, 2020. "Insider trading and shareholder investment horizons," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 62(C).
  38. Jianfu Shen & Eddie C.M. Hui & Kwokyuen Fan, 2021. "Did Real Estate Professionals Anticipate the 2007-2008 Financial Crisis? Evidence from Insider Trading in the REITs," The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Springer, vol. 63(1), pages 122-142, July.
  39. Irene Karamanou & Grace Pownall & Rachna Prakash, 2021. "Asymmetric information consolidation and price discovery: Inferring bad news from insider sales," Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 48(1-2), pages 230-268, January.
  40. Li, Tao & Wang, Yan & Li, Haomin, 2023. "Corporate social responsibility and insider trading profitability: Evidence from an emerging market," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 77(C).
  41. Aziz Simsir, Serif & Simsek, Koray D., 2022. "The market impact of private information before corporate Announcements: Evidence from Turkey," Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Elsevier, vol. 80(C).
  42. Yang, Xiaotong & Xie, Rongrong, 2024. "The dark side of digital transformation: Evidence from opportunistic insider selling," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 67(PB).
  43. Xuanpu Lin & Guoman She, 2025. "Timely Cybersecurity Disclosure and Information Manipulation," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 71(11), pages 9308-9327, November.
  44. Jiang, Cheng & John, Kose & Kim, J.H. John & Zhang, Jingyu, 2025. "CEOs' narcissism and opportunistic insider trading," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 91(C).
  45. Jan Hanousek & Hoje Jo & Christos Pantzalis & Jung Chul Park, 2023. "A Dilemma of Self-interest vs. Ethical Responsibilities in Political Insider Trading," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 187(1), pages 137-167, September.
  46. Tian, Jiaxing & Xiang, Hong & Xu, Minghai, 2025. "Insider trading and anomalies," Journal of Empirical Finance, Elsevier, vol. 84(C).
  47. Drobetz, Wolfgang & Mussbach, Emil & Westheide, Christian, 2020. "Corporate insider trading and return skewness," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 60(C).
  48. Xie, Nan & Xu, Qifa & Jiang, Cuixia & Fu, Hong, 2023. "Social media, investor-company interaction and insider trading profitability: Evidence from China," Research in International Business and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 66(C).
  49. Shackleton, Mark & Yao, Yaqiong & Zuo, Ziran, 2025. "Corporate social responsibility and insider horizon," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 90(C).
  50. Dong, Ming & Hirshleifer, David & Teoh, Siew Hong, 2021. "Misvaluation and Corporate Inventiveness," Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Cambridge University Press, vol. 56(8), pages 2605-2633, December.
  51. Gu, Junjian, 2022. "Do at home as Romans do? CEO overseas experience and financial misconduct risk of emerging market firms," Research in International Business and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 60(C).
  52. Hou, Xiaohui & Wang, Tengyu & Ma, Caoyuan, 2021. "Economic policy uncertainty and corporate fraud," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 71(C), pages 97-110.
  53. Sehwa Kim & Seil Kim, 2024. "Fragmented Securities Regulation, Information-Processing Costs, and Insider Trading," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 70(7), pages 4407-4428, July.
  54. Pierce, Andrew T., 2024. "Capital-market effects of tipper-tippee insider trading law: Evidence from the Newman ruling," Journal of Accounting and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 77(2).
  55. Ma, Rui & Marshall, Ben R. & Nguyen, Hung T. & Nguyen, Nhut H. & Visaltanachoti, Nuttawat, 2024. "Insider trading and climate disasters," Global Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 62(C).
  56. Kyriacou, Kyriacos & Liu, Siming & Mase, Bryan, 2024. "Corruption and insider trading," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 89(C).
  57. Du, Shiyan & Lin, Wenlian & Pan, Jingchen, 2024. "Insider opportunistic trading through fast sales: Evidence from China," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 86(C).
  58. Chen, Yongming & Li, Hui, 2023. "The dual purpose of insider trading: Signaling quality and battling shorts," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 55(PB).
  59. Zhou, Jian & Lei, Xiaodong, 2025. "ESG rating uncertainty and corporate financial misconduct," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 189(C).
  60. Shangkun Deng & Chenguang Wang & Zhe Fu & Mingyue Wang, 2021. "An Intelligent System for Insider Trading Identification in Chinese Security Market," Computational Economics, Springer;Society for Computational Economics, vol. 57(2), pages 593-616, February.
  61. Jiang, Chao & Wintoki, M. Babajide & Xi, Yaoyi, 2021. "Insider trading and the legal expertise of corporate executives," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 127(C).
  62. Hoang, Lai T. & Hossain, Md Zakir & Tong, Jamie Y. & Yang, Joey W., 2023. "Do insider investment horizons contain information? Evidence from Australia," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 79(C).
  63. Ahmed Al‐Hadi & Baban Eulaiwi & Hidaya Al Lawati & Grantley Taylor, 2026. "Unveiling Corruption's Influence on Insider Trading: US Insights," Accounting and Finance, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 66(2), pages 1764-1799, June.
  64. Dewan Rahman & Robert Faff & Barry Oliver, 2021. "Does board independence constrain insider opportunism?," Australian Journal of Management, Australian School of Business, vol. 46(3), pages 499-522, August.
  65. Ferhat Akbas & Chao Jiang & Paul D. Koch, 2020. "Insider Investment Horizon," Journal of Finance, American Finance Association, vol. 75(3), pages 1579-1627, June.
  66. Yiwei Li & Grant Michelson & Vito Mollica & Qing Clara Zhou, 2026. "Inside the Beltway: Senator Trading and Legislative Gains," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 204(2), pages 413-435, March.
  67. Jiang, Haiyang & Yang, Zeyu, 2025. "Green financial policies and executive opportunistic share reduction," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 85(PB).
  68. PYO Gyungmin, 2022. "Insider Trading, Stock Volatility, And Market Liquidity In The Korean Capital Market," Studies in Business and Economics, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Faculty of Economic Sciences, vol. 17(3), pages 175-189, December.
  69. Sung Gon Chung & Beng Wee Goh & Jimmy Lee & Terry Shevlin, 2019. "Corporate Tax Aggressiveness and Insider Trading," Contemporary Accounting Research, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 36(1), pages 230-258, March.
  70. He, Qing & Liang, Bailin & Zhang, Ce, 2026. "Does policy uncertainty affect firms' exchange rate exposure? Evidence from China11," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 95(C).
  71. Lin, Wenlian & Pan, Jingchen, 2026. "Anchoring-induced insider sales in emerging markets: The role of stock price informativeness," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 96(C).
  72. Brodmann, Jennifer & Unsal, Omer & Hassan, M. Kabir, 2019. "Political lobbying, insider trading, and CEO compensation," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 59(C), pages 548-565.
  73. Mehmet E. Akbulut & Arsenio Staer & Erdem Ucar, 2025. "Stakeholder orientation and insider trading," The Financial Review, Eastern Finance Association, vol. 60(3), pages 761-798, August.
  74. Rashid Zaman & Nader Atawnah & Muhammad Nadeem & Stephen Bahadar & Irfan Haider Shakri, 2022. "Do liquid assets lure managers? Evidence from corporate misconduct," Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 49(7-8), pages 1425-1453, July.
  75. Contreras, Harold & Marcet, Francisco, 2021. "Sell-side analyst heterogeneity and insider trading," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 66(C).
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