Stock repurchases and treasury share sales: Do they stabilize price and enhance liquidity?

Journal of Corporate Finance

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1558-1579

  De Cesari, Amedeo ^a   Espenlaub, Susanne ^b   Khurshed, Arif ^b  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bid ask spread; Liquidity; Price stabilization; Repurchase; Variance

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053546631     PISSN: 09291199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2011.08.002     Document Type: Article

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