Professor Patrick Augustin wins Best Paper on Empirical Finance at the 2015 Northern Finance Association Annual Meeting for his paper "Informed Options Trading prior to M&A Announcements:...
Authors:聽Patrick Augustin,聽Jianfeng Hu,聽Menachem Brenner and Marti Subrahmanyam
Publication: The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation
Excerpt:
Over the past year, a record 266 companies have spun off divisions in a trend bankers are calling 鈥淪pinmania.鈥� If history is any guide, about 35 of those deals will have leaked undetected to inside...
OptionMetrics, a leading source for quality historical option price data, tools and analytics, has announced the upcoming聽OptionMetrics Research Conference (ORC2014). The conference will be held on...
Professor Patrick Augustin has been selected to receive a 2014 Best Paper Award by the Chinese Finance Association (TCFA) for his paper, entitled 鈥淚nformed Options Trading prior to M&A...
According to a new study, insider trading often occurs during merger and acquisitions and is rarely punished. BNN takes a closer look with one of the report's co-authors,聽Patrick Augustin,...
Insider trading continues to be 鈥減ervasive鈥� before merger and acquisition deals but rarely leads to prosecutions, according to an analysis of unusual trading patterns by a team of professors in...
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