Are rules and their enforcement effective at mitigating insider trading? A study shows that rules and surveillance together have the potential to mitigate the perpetration of market manipulation but also to exacerbate the profits from such manipulative activities. Insider trading can be facilitated by several forms of market manipulation that are not, strictly speaking, by
Directors execute trades in their companies’ shares for a variety of reasons. Their actions may have information value for other investors seeking to mimic these strategies. This paper tests whether directors’ discretionary trading has a predictive value, and also provides a better understanding of the information flow in equity markets. Sean Hardy USYD, CIFR /
Concerns regarding the prevalence of manipulation of closing prices have prompted substantial changes to the mechanisms used to close trading at stock exchanges around the world. Nicholas Cordi USYD, CIFR / CMCRC Honours Scholarship Program 2014 Sean Foley USYD Keywords: Close price, Random Auction Ending, Manipulation Closing prices are important for, among others, benchmarking