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Amending China's Insider Trading Prohibition - An Immodest Proposal, Nicholas C. Howson Oct 2015

Amending China's Insider Trading Prohibition - An Immodest Proposal, Nicholas C. Howson

Law & Economics Working Papers

Presented in China in conjunction with the proposed amendment of the People's Republic of China (PRC) Securities Law 2006, this paper critiques the form and application of the PRC's current insider trading prohibition and its misconceived fealty to Rule 10b-5-limiting U.S. Supreme Court-derived doctrines of fiduciary duty and misappropriation, and urges that China's amended statute and enforcement system look to the broader doctrinal formulations employed in the United Kingdom and the European Union, ironically already used by China's securities regulator pursuant to internal (and likely illegal) administrative "guidance" norms.