TY - BOOK AU - Barnes,Paul TI - Stock market efficiency, insider dealing and market abuse SN - 9780566088490 (hardback : alk. paper) PY - 2009/// CY - Farnham, England PB - Gower KW - Efficient market theory KW - Securities fraud KW - Insider trading in securities KW - Stock exchanges N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Why the stock market and its efficiency are so important -- How shares are traded and valued -- The efficient capital markets hypothesis (ECMH) -- Market irrationality : bubbles, manias, panics and crashes -- Out-performing the market : the case of mergers and takeovers -- The regulation of the markets -- Market abuse -- The role, use and abuse of financial and accounting data : information asymmetry -- The way forward ER -