Dittmar, Amy; Field, Laura Casares - In: Journal of Financial Economics 115 (2015) 2, pp. 261-282
Little is known about the price firms pay for stock repurchases. Using a data set of all U.S. repurchases from 2004 to 2011, we compare the actual average price paid monthly in a repurchase with the average market price for the same stock over various horizons. We find that firms repurchase...