An overview of insider trading law and policy: an introduction to the Research Handbook on Insider Trading / Joan MacLeod Heminway. A portrait of the insider trader as a woman / A.C. Pritchard -- What were they thinking? Insider trading and the scienter requirement / Donald C. Langevoort -- Entrepreneurship, compensation, and the corporation / Henry G. Manne -- Regulating insider trading in the post- fiduciary duty era: equal access or property rights? / Stephen M. Bainbridge -- The Facebook effect: secondary markets and insider trading in today's startup environment / Stephen F. Diamond -- Regulation FD: an alternative approach to addressing information asymmetry / Jill Fisch -- Decision theory and the case for an optional disclosure- based regime for regulating insider trading / Thomas A. Lambert -- Applying insider trading law to congressmen, government officials, and the political intelligence industry / J.W. Verret -- What governmental insider trading teaches us about corporate insider trading / Sung Hui Kim -- A portrait of the insider trader as a woman / Joan MacLeod Heminway. Takeover bids and insider trading / Matthijs Nelemans and Michael Schouten. The changing demand for insider trading regulation / M. Todd Henderson -- Insider trading: what is seen and what is not seen / Alexandre Padilla -- The political economy of insider trading laws and enforcement: law vs. politics? International evidence / Laura Nyantung Beny -- The regulation of insider trading in China: law and enforcement / Hui Huang -- Punishing possession: China's all- embracing insider trading enforcement regime / Nicholas Calcina Howson -- Insider trading regulation in Japan / J. Mark Ramseyer -- Insider trading in Australia / Keith Kendall and Gordon Walker -- Insider trading law in New Zealand / Gordon Walker and Andrew F. Simpson -- UK insider dealing and market abuse law: strengthening regulatory law to combat market misconduct / Kern Alexander -- Insider trading in European law / Katja Langenbucher -- Takeover bids and insider trading / Matthijs Nelemans and Michael Schouten.
Summary:
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.
Series:
Research handbooks in corporate law and governance
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