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Do Prices Reveal the Presence of Informed Trading ?

Collin-Dufresne, Pierre  
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Fos, Vyacheslav
2012

Using a comprehensive sample of trades by Schedule 13D filers, who possess valuable private information when they accumulate stocks of targeted companies, this paper studies whether several liquidity measures reveal the presence of informed trading. The evidence suggests that when Schedule 13D filers trade aggressively, both high-frequency and low-frequency measures of stock liquidity indicate a higher stock liquidity. Importantly, measures that have been used as direct proxies for adverse selection, such the Kyle (1985) lambda, the Easley et al. (1996) pin measure, and the Amihud (2002) illiquidity measure, suggest that the adverse selection is lower when informed trading takes place. The evidence is consistent with informed traders being more aggressive when measured stock liquidity is high.

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working paper
DOI
10.2139/ssrn.2179960
Author(s)
Collin-Dufresne, Pierre  
Fos, Vyacheslav
Date Issued

2012

Subjects

Informed trading

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Liquidity

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Transaction costs

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Selection bias

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Activist shareholders

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REVIEWED

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EPFL

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SFI-PCD  
Available on Infoscience
August 9, 2013
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/94022
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