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Insider trading around open-market share repurchases

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  • Fei Leng
  • Kevin Zhao

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We examine insider trading around open-market share repurchases and find that insiders trade passively in 3 months prior to repurchase announcements and in up to 12 months following the announcements. Furthermore, both pre-announcement and post-announcement abnormal insider trading is unrelated to short-term announcement returns but correlated with long-term post-announcement returns. Our results indicate that corporate insiders trade passively around repurchase announcements in accordance with their perceived undervaluation to exploit the long-run abnormal stock returns related to the events. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2014

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  • Fei Leng & Kevin Zhao, 2014. "Insider trading around open-market share repurchases," Journal of Economics and Finance, Springer;Academy of Economics and Finance, vol. 38(3), pages 461-491, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:jecfin:v:38:y:2014:i:3:p:461-491
    DOI: 10.1007/s12197-012-9227-x
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    Insider Trading; Open Market Share Repurchase; Long-Term Stock Performance; G30; G32;
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    • G30 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - General
    • G32 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill

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