The Conversation: Shareholders are suffering most from Elon Musk’s Twitter feud – here’s why both sides must renegotiate the deal
Hamza Mudassir, Lecturer in Strategy at Cambridge Judge Business School, writes about the recent Twitter’s stock fall. “Elon Musk’s recent highly public back and forth with Twitter has given the market whiplash. Twitter, while initially resisting the tycoon, went on…
The Wall Street Journal: CEO stock sales raise questions about insider trading
A study by Alan Jagolinzer, Professor of Financial Accountings at Cambridge Judge Business School, is mentioned in this analysis of preset trading plans by company insiders, showing that executives benefit when sales happen quickly after the plans’ adoption. The study…
Financial Times: Lax rules are allowing corporate fat cats to dump stock
Research on ‘pre-planned’ stock sales in the U.S. companies co-authored by Cambridge Judge's Professor Alan Jagolinzer and colleagues is mentioned in the FT article. The paper calls for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to reform policies relating to ‘pre-planned’…
The Wall Street Journal: Executive stock sales are under scrutiny. Here’s what regulators are interested in
Alan Jagolinzer, Professor of Financial Accounting at Cambridge Judge Business School, is quoted in the Wall Street Journal article on disclosure rules for executives who sell their company's stock. (subs) Read the full article [wsj.com]…
Why do green stocks outperform?
by Dr Mehrshad Motahari, Research Associate, Cambridge Centre for Finance and Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance Green, or environmentally friendly, companies have generated significantly higher stock returns compared to their brown peers in recent years. This gap in the…

Demand for information
by Dr Shiqi Chen, Research Associate, Cambridge Centre for Finance and Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance Shiqi Chen We are entering into an era of Big Data, in which the demand and supply of data and information are growing…

Stock sales
Three US senators cite research by Professor Alan Jagolinzer of Cambridge Judge Business School in urging SEC reform of insider trading laws. Professor Alan Jagolinzer Three US senators cited research co-authored by Professor Alan Jagolinzer of Cambridge Judge Business School in urging the Securities…

Do firm locations affect stock prices?
by Dr Mehrshad Motahari, Research Associate, Cambridge Centre for Finance and Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance A large body of literature documents how firms' geographical locations can affect their stock returns. For example, Pirinsky and Wang (2006) show that…

Call for SEC action
Article co-authored by Professor Alan Jagolinzer of Cambridge Judge calls for Securities and Exchange Commission to reform 'pre-planned' stock sale rules. Professor Alan Jagolinzer An article co-authored by Professor Alan Jagolinzer of Cambridge Judge Business School in The Hill, a…
