This paper examines the impacts of actual share repurchases on stock liquidity of companies listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) over 2001-2010. The results show that bid-ask spreads are narrower, price impact is lower, and turnover is higher on repurchase days compared to those on...

We analyze the impact of share repurchases on liquidity based on a new comprehensive data set of realized share repurchases in the US, which covers 50,204 repurchase months between 2004 and 2010. Using instrumental variable analysis we show that repurchases unequivocally improve liquidity and...

In addition to distributing dividends and repurchasing shares, directly distributing cash to shareholders in order to reduce capital is an alternative form of paying out. A firm can alter its capital structure by repurchasing shares or by reducing capital. This paper employs the approach of...

Using corporate payout data from 33 economies around the world, this study investigates the relations among stock repurchases, dividends and firm value (as well as cash value) under different investor protection environments. We find that stock repurchases contribute more to firm value in...

We show that enhanced stock liquidity increases a firm’s propensity to hold cash using tick-size decimalization for identification. Our finding is surprising in light of the view that improved stock liquidity reduces financial constraints. As an explanation, we propose that there is a...