Abstract
AbstractMicrostructure theory contends that dealers' bid‐ask spreads should vary intertemporally with changes in the asymmetric information component of the spread. Corporate theory suggests that stock repurchase announcements signal management's private information to the securities markets. An examination of dealers' spread behavior around firms' open market repurchases in the NASDAQ market reveals a decline in spreads adjusted for dealers' inventory‐holding and order‐processing costs. This decline is attributed to a reduction in informed trading risk associated with the open market repurchase announcements.
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