Author:
Billett Matthew T.,Yu Miaomiao
Abstract
We explore the link between open-market share repurchases (OMRs) and asymmetric information based on financial reporting quality and find thatopaquefirms experience positive abnormal returns of twice the magnitude of those oftransparentfirms. These significant differences remain after controlling for governance, earnings management, and firm characteristics. We document significantly positive long-run postannouncement returns for opaque firms, but not for transparent firms. We find that takeover activity and premiums rise with repurchase activity by opaque firms, which may explain some of the wealth effects. Our results suggest that asymmetric information plays an important role in the wealth effects around OMRs.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Economics and Econometrics,Finance,Accounting
Cited by
25 articles.
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