What drives the declining wealth effect of subsequent share repurchase announcements?

Recent academic studies document that open market share repurchase announcements in the United States generate significantly lower returns than those reported in earlier studies. We find that the lower announcement return is associated with an increasing number of subsequent announcements in the mor...

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Main Authors: DING, David K., KOERNIADI, Hardjo, KRISHNAMURTI, Chandrasekhar
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6619
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/7618/viewcontent/jrfm_13_00176.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
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Summary:Recent academic studies document that open market share repurchase announcements in the United States generate significantly lower returns than those reported in earlier studies. We find that the lower announcement return is associated with an increasing number of subsequent announcements in the more recent periods. Although the announcement period return from the initial announcement is positive, subsequent announcement returns are significantly decreasing. Further, we find that the decreasing returns of subsequent announcements are attributed to firms with negative past repurchase announcement returns. Our multivariate regression test results are consistent with the notion that the decreasing subsequent repurchase announcement returns are driven by hubris-endowed managers.