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Pavel Komarovskiy's avatar

Thank you, Larry, it's a good collection of research papers on the topic. I've referenced the Sammon & Shim paper in my post about index funds effectively converting stock buybacks to a dividend equivalent, and incurring some drag in the process: https://rationalbeard.substack.com/p/stock-buybacks-vs-dividends

Larry Swedroe's avatar

Nice piece Pavel. Might have mentioned that for taxable investors buybacks more tax efficient way to return capital

Pavel Komarovskiy's avatar

Thank you. The tax efficiency is undeniably on the side of buybacks, for sure.