Investor Heterogeneity, Investor-Management Disagreement, and Share Repurchases

This paper develops and tests a new theoretical explanation for why a firm conducts open-market stock repurchases. Investors may disagree with the manager about the firm’s investment projects. A repurchase causes a change in the investor base as investors who are more likely to disagree with the man...

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Main Authors: HUANG, Sheng, Thakor, Anjan
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/3488
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1570485
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English