Prior research documents a positive relation between controlling shareholders’ share pledge and the probability of stock repurchase announcement. This study investigates whether and how stock mispricing and corporate governance affect this relation. By extending the framework of Chan, Chen,...

This paper tests trade-off and pecking order predictions about stock repurchases and dividends by using a sample of publicly traded U.S. firms from 1983-2018. We find that stock repurchases have the characteristics of dynamic adjustment compared to cash dividends. Examination of the determinants...

We study herded stock repurchase using complete repurchase records from Chinese stock markets from 2005 to 2021. The data suggests that only repurchase decisions aiming to boost the stock price, among other purposes, significantly increase peer firms' tendency to follow. Such herding behavior...