Regulation of insider trading: Problems and solutions in the United States and Switzerland

In this comparative study a broad view of insider trading in the United States and Switzerland will be presented. The goal is to compare the developments in two different nations with different legal traditions.It is the task of this thesis not only to outline the different developments but also to demonstrate the influence the United States had on to the process of legislation in Switzerland.It may be the price of the internationalization of the capital market that a nation such as Switzerland with some importance in this field is no longer completely free to legislate.While in the United States a long tradition of literature and cases already exists and a development of cases can be shown, the situation in Switzerland is completely different because the law was enacted only a year ago.