Stock market liquidity and the decision to repurchase

Journal of Corporate Finance

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 446-459

  Brockman, Paul ^a   Howe, John S ^a   Mortal, Sandra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Dividends; Liquidity; Payout policy; Repurchases

Indexed keywords

EID: 50049125798     PISSN: 09291199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2008.06.001     Document Type: Article

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