The informed options trading hypothesis posits that option prices lead stock prices. In this paper, we extended the research on this hypothesis to open-market share repurchases. Empirical tests showed that the implied volatility spread was not significantly related to buy-and-hold abnormal stock...

Ensuring access to clean water is one of the most important development and health challenges of the twenty-first century. Given the manifold impacts of business activities on water resources, corporate water actions should be of central concern to business ethics researchers. Yet so far we know...

Buyback of shares was considered as a good beginning for introducing flexibility in the capital structure. In 1999, the Securities and Exchange Board of India issued guidelines on buyback of shares that are to be followed by the listed companies. Buybacks can be regarded as the late 20th century...

Buybacks is fast emerging as an effective alternative corporate payout policy. Buyback announcements are important events that create temporary market reactions in form of changes in stock prices, liquidity, volatility and other parameters. This study scans for the first time for Indian capital...

This paper aims to study the stock market reaction around buyback announcements made during a 10-year period between 2000-01 and 2009-10 by taking the S&P CNX 500 index companies and dividing the period into normal and active market conditions. Through the standard event study methodology, it...