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| Title: | | Sooner or later: delays in trade reporting by corporate insiders  |
| Authors: | | Betzer, André Theissen, Erik |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | CFR working paper 08-06 |
| Abstract: | | Until October 2004 corporate insiders in Germany were required to report trades in the shares of their firm 'without delay'. In practice substantial reporting delays were common. We show that the delays are systematically related to the characteristics of the firm. Delays are longer in widely-held firms and in firms using German accounting standards. This suggests that managers of these firms are less responsive to the informational requirements of the capital market. We further find that abnormal returns after the reporting date of an insider trade are independent of the reporting delay. This implies that prices are distorted in the period between the trading and the reporting date. This is a strong point in favor of regulation requiring and enforcing immediate disclosure of insider trades. |
| Subjects: | | insider trading directors' dealings accounting standards |
| JEL: | | G14 G30 G32 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | CFR Working Papers, Centre for Financial Research (CFR), Universität Köln
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