Khalilov, AkramGarcía Osma, Beatriz2022-07-142022-07-142020-04-01Khalilov, A., & Osma, B. G. (2020). Accounting conservatism and the profitability of corporate insiders. Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, 47 (3-4), pp. 333-364.0306-686Xhttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/35461We predict that accounting conservatism influences insiders opportunities to speculate on good and bad news, and thus, insider trading profitability. We find that greater conditional (unconditional) conservatism is associated with lower (higher) insiders profitability from sales. We find limited evidence that conservatism influences profitability from purchases. These findings are consistent with our hypotheses on the different informational roles ofconditional and unconditional conservatism, and on the asymmetric influence of conservatism over the opportunities to speculate on good versus bad news. Our research design takes intoconsideration the endogenous nature of insiders trading and conservatism. The results are robust to different measures of conservatism and a number of additional analyses.eng© 2020 John Wiley & Sons LtdConditional conservatismInsider trading sales and purchasesProfitability from insider tradingUnconditional conservatismresearch articleG30M41EconomíaEmpresahttps://doi.org/10.1111/jbfa.12438open access13-449Journal of Business Finance & Accounting47AR/0000024421