Abstract
The paper examines the profitability of insider trading. We examine insider trading on the Vancouver Stock Exchange where it might be argued that there are large informational asymmetries. Besides the traditional 'event study' approach, we develop portfolio performance measures for the aggregate insider and his / her trading partner (by definition, the outsider) that measure portfolio return over the entire sequence of insider (and outsider) trades. Our major conclusion is that, despite being able to identify particular profitable insider trades, the insiders do not, over all their trades, outperform the outsiders. This conclusion has important implications for the economic viability of the exchange.
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