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Stock Repurchase and Information Effect of Accounting Earnings - Evidence from Discretionary Accounting Choices

&nbsp;&nbsp;This study empirically investigates the fact that manager’ discretionary accounting choices are higher for firms that repurchase their own stocks (treatment firms) than for firms that do not repurchase their own stocks(control firms), and the market response. In particular, the study tests two related hypotheses: Hypothesis 1 is that the absolute of discretionary accruals are higher for treatment firms than for control firms; hypothesis 2 is that the market response to discretionary accruals in treatment firms and control firms is significantly different.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Manager’s discretionary accounting choices can be measured by discretionary accruals. and Whether discretionary accruals arise from manager’s opportunistic behavior or attempt to signal inside superior information inference from market assessments.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;The sample of this study consistsof 560 manufacturing firms listed in the Korean Stock Exchanges from 1994 to 2002. To increase internal validity of the study, we include these variables: |OCF|, |TAt-1|, SIZE, DEBT, RISK and I(industry dummy) in regression analysis.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;The results of this study are as follows. First, with regard to hypothesis 1, the absolute of discretionary accruals is higher significantly for treatment firms than for control firms. Second, the market response to this discretionary accruals shows a statistically negative relationship. These results are consistent with the fact that a manager’s discretionary accounting choices are higher for treatment firms than for control firms, which infers that market assess manager’ opportunistic behavior than signal inside superior information.