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I examine the impact that media coverage has on open market share repurchase outcomes. I find that media coverage around repurchase announcements are negatively related to firms’ actual repurchases following the announcements. This result suggests that only firms that do not attract sufficient in...

I examine the role of investor attention on seasoned equity offerings’ (SEOs) outcomes. I use an archive of Thomson Reuters’ news articles to proxy for investor attention. I find that the volumes of news articles prior to the offerings are positively associated with the offer price discounts of S...