Optimal shareholder bidding strategies in a dutch auction share repurchase are derived when shareholder heterogeneity could be due to either differential expectations regarding the firm's future earnings or differential tax bases. Predictions of the theory are tested by analyzing the actual...

In an asymmetric information framework, a number of authors have demonstrated the existence and uniqueness of short-term debt pooling equilibria in the absence of dissipative costs. The authors show that short-term debt pooling is robust to a broad range of deviations from stationarity and...