Stock buybacks: some old norm should remain new

• Main Author: ZHANG, Wei
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: corporate law; stocks; Singapore; COVID-19; pandemic; public health; Business Organizations Law; Public Health
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/3221; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/5187/viewcontent/Stock_buybacks.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Corporate payouts, especially through stock buybacks, are never short of critics. COVID-19 has simply energized them further. From the energy industry to airlines and banks, US public companies are blamed for ensnaring themselves into the abysmal crisis in the midst of COVID-19 by handing out cashes...