Taxes, tenders and the design of Australian off-market share repurchases

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 52, Issue SUPPL.1, 2012, Pages 109-135

  Brown, Christine ^a   Davis, Kevin ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

G32; G35; H20; Repurchases; Shareholder heterogeneity; Taxation; Tenders

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867234124     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629X.2011.00445.x     Document Type: Article

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