Why both insider trading and non-mandato
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Naveen Khanna
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Article
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1997
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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This paper shows that insider trading reduces outside searchers' trading profits and thus their incentive to search for information. This reduces social welfare since allocation decisions are made with less information. Non-mandatory disclosures are also socially undesirable for identical reasons. T