Download or read book Seasoned Equity Offerings, Managerial Opportunism, and Insider Trading written by Jan Jindra and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major attribute of the United States capital markets is the separation of ownership and control. This separation gives insiders the opportunity to take advantage of private information not available to the market. The issue of whether insiders opportunistically take advantage of their private information is studied in two contexts: seasoned equity issues and earnings manipulation.