Profitability of Insider Trading in Europe: A Performance Evaluation Approach
67 Pages Posted: 26 Jul 2012 Last revised: 12 May 2017
Date Written: May 11, 2017
Abstract
We use the largest cross-country sample of reported share transactions by corporate insiders to date to establish that insiders in the majority of European countries do not make statistically significant abnormal trading profits. This finding stands in contrast to the earlier evidence from the U.S. The result holds across subsamples of firms with different characteristics. Furthermore, the introduction of the European Union Market Abuse Directive (MAD) had a mixed impact on the frequency and volume of insider trading across countries but generally did not affect profits of insider-mimicking portfolios. We build on the heterogeneity of our sample countries to show that several country-level regulatory, economic and cultural factors are linked with the level of insider profits which can explain why the profitability of insider trading differs starkly across countries.
Keywords: Insider trading, portfolio, profits, Europe, MAD
JEL Classification: G11, G14, G18
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