The paper aims to determine whether French companies respond to investor demand and preference in terms of share repurchases and dividend payments. The study is based on data from the Thomson Reuters Eikon database and focuses on French companies listed on the CAC All-Tradable index from 2000 to...

This article studies the relationship between ownership structure of French companies and their stock repurchase policy. According to financial theory, the presence of institutional investors negatively influences repurchasing policy because the preference of these investors is to reinvest in...