(VF)Cet article étudie les motivations des firmes canadiennes cotées à annoncer des programmes de rachat d’actions et l’impact de l’activité économique sur ce comportement. La distribution des flux monétaires excédentaires, l’envoi d’un signal ainsi que la prévention de la...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to examine if certain board characteristics have an impact on the total remuneration of top management and the ratio of stock-based remuneration to total top-management remuneration. Design/methodology/approach – The study draws on data from the...

We analyze earnings forecasting errors made by financial analysts for 18 European countries over the 1995-2006 period. We use the Heston-Rouwenhorst approach to unravel country-, industry-, and firm-specific effects as a source of variation in financial analysts' earnings forecast errors. We...