Impact of corporate insider on insider trading: Evidence from Pakistan stock exchange

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of a corporate insider on insider trading in Pakistan. For this purpose, 30 top firms will be extracted from 540 Listed Firms on Pakistan Stock Exchange, and their data from the last five years will be used in this study. This research will measure the variables by the method of Logit Regression Analysis. The result shows that Directors’ ownership has optimistic and Audit firms hurt insider trading, whereas the remaining four variables had no impact on insider trading. This research is just limited to Pakistan’s listed firms with limited variables and restricted sample size.