Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF) have attracted a lot media attention with recent investments in publicly listed companies. Repeatedly, concerns have been raised, such as the fear of industrial espionage or geopolitical threats. We analyze whether SWF managers acquire stakes in foreign publicly...

Insider trading and the effectiveness of regulatory actions trying to detect and prevent it are of great interest to traders, regulators, prosecutors and the public. This paper develops an intraday estimation procedure for the sequential trading model initially proposed by Easley et al. (1987,...

This paper investigates whether IPO signals reveal proprietary information about the prospects of an issuing firm's underlying industry. By analyzing a sample of European property company (EPC) IPOs from 1997 to 2007, we take advantage of a heterogeneous set of industry performance measures,...