I examine the impact that media coverage has on open market share repurchase outcomes. I find that media coverage around repurchase announcements are negatively related to firms’ actual repurchases following the announcements. ...

I examine the impact that media coverage has on open market share repurchase outcomes. I find that media coverage around repurchase announcements are negatively related to firms’ actual repurchases following the announcements. ...

Purpose - This paper examines the impact that financial media coverage has on share repurchase outcomes in the U.S.Design/methodology/approach - I perform regression analysis to examine how the volume of firm-specific news ...

In this study we examine earnings management around open market share repurchases. We examine two hypotheses: managerial opportunism and market response, both of which predict that managers will manage earnings down ...