This paper aims to examine how corporate insider trading influences patterns of foreign and institutional investors especially in firms with high discretionary accruals low book-to-market ratios as proxies for information uncertainty. study uses methods such informed traders who are considered gather more precise before after tests affects traders. The results this provide evidence that is like...

Prior research has shown that informed trading activity decreases the stock return volatility because trading causes stock prices to converge to fundamentals. On the contrary to existing studies, this paper documents the empirical asymmetric relation between informed trading activity and volatility. Stocks with relatively less private information are associated with lower participation of infor...

Article history: Received 2 March 2015 Received in revised form 19 May 2015 Accepted 26 May 2015 Available online 9 June 2015 Wecombine two concepts of informed trading – contrarian trades and stealth trading – to develop proxies for the probability of informed trading. These proxies are used to test the link between informed trading and adverse selection asmeasuredbybid–ask spreads and stock i...

Informed Trading and the Pricing of Good and Bad Private Information in the Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns We decompose PIN, the Probability of Informed Trading, into components that capture informed trading on good news (PIN G) and on bad news (PIN B), and provide new evidence that PIN and its components capture informed trading around quarterly earnings announcements. Our principal r...

I investigate the different roles played by two components of trading volume, informed-trading and liquidity-trading, in the volatility-volume relation at the aggregate level. Using transaction data and an extended trading model of Easley, Kiefer, O’Hara and Paperman (1996), I estimate a marketwide private information arrival rate (PIAR) variable and use it to control for the informed trading c...