Price Effects of Stock Repurchasing: A Random Coefficient Regression Approach

Abstract

More than ten years have passed since Bierman and West [1] and Elton and Gruber [5] first used valuation models to study corporate stock repurchasing. Young [29] followed their work with an empirical investigation of the motivations for stock repurchasing and its impact on prices. Following Young, there seems to have been a five-year pause in the study of repurchasing. However, by 1973 repurchasing activity had increased in intensity, and this seems to have rekindled an interest in studying the phenomenon.