We study share repurchase announcements for nine European countries between 2000 to 2017. In contrast to previous studies, we address the role of market uncertainty as a market-based determinant of positive average abnormal announcement returns, while including governance, liquidity risk and...

We explore the distinguishing characteristics of firms that completed or stopped their repurchase programs. Our findings help further understanding the economic reasons why firms would stop buybacks. Based on our international sample of 818 completed and 101 stopped share repurchase programs...

Purpose – This paper investigates the impact of market-level uncertainty on dividend and repurchase decisions. Design/methodology/approach – Using a large dataset over a nearly 50 year period, the author examines the choice to pay dividends and repurchase shares using logit and multinomial...

We study the effect of ambiguity — Knightian uncertainty — on payout policy. We find that firm-level ambiguity increases and accelerates payout, via both dividends and share repurchases. This positive effect of ambiguity is distinct from the known negative effect of risk on payout policy....

I examine whether and to what extent tax uncertainty affects a firm's dividend payouts. Based on the argument that tax uncertainty impairs the persistence and predictability of after-tax cash flows, I hypothesize and find that firms with greater tax uncertainty exhibit a lower probability of...