Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

8-2020

Abstract

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.

Keywords

open market share repurchase, hubris, cumulative announcement returns, endowed

Discipline

Finance and Financial Management | Portfolio and Security Analysis

Research Areas

Finance

Publication

Journal of Risk and Financial Management

Volume

13

Issue

8

First Page

1

Last Page

14

ISSN

1911-8066

Identifier

10.3390/jrfm13080176

Publisher

MDPI

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.3390/jrfm13080176

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