The Coronavirus outbreak of 2019-20 has left governments, markets, and civil society
reeling through disruptions and damage that shall heal at differing intervals and to differing …

This literature review aims to address the critical knowledge gap in the field of share
repurchase executions, a financial activity involving companies repurchasing trillions of …

Although some studies have suggested that executives' military experience affects corporate
decisions, whether and how it is associated with share repurchases is less well understood …

This study examines the effect of CEO social capital on capital structure complexity (CSC).
Furthermore, this study explores the need for external financing, access to debt markets, and …

Using recent US data, we find that long-horizon abnormal returns following repurchase
announcements made after 2001 are much lower than those following earlier …

The importance of CEO overconfidence in capital structure decision-making has drawn
attention of many scholars in the past. Despite this, literature on the subject to-date does not …

Corporate dividend policy is a puzzle, especially when considering the effects of economic
and behavioural factors. We develop a theoretical analysis of corporate dividend policy in …

We examine the impact of economic policy uncertainty as measured by Baker et al.(2016)
on share repurchase activity in the US market. We employ panel analyses with 2258 firms …

We use the staggered adoption of Wrongful Discharge Laws (WDLs) by US state courts as a
quasi-natural experiment to examine the causal impact of firing costs and employment …

While positive, long-run abnormal returns following share repurchase announcements are
substantially lower when CEOs are overconfident. This effect is particularly strong for (i) …