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En studie av sambandet mellan valet av kapitalåterföringsmetod och värdeskapande för aktieägarna
This thesis studies the stock price reaction around 68 announcements of special dividends and share redemptions on the Swedish stock market between the years of 2003 and 2007. We show that for the Swedish private investor, the tax effect of a share redemption is lower than that of a special dividend. Moreover, a share redemption could be interpreted as a signal of undervaluation. These two factors lead us to assume that the stock market would react more positively in connection to the announcement of a share redemption. We test this hypothesis through an analysis of the risk-adjusted abnormal return for the observations in the sample. We also test for an effect that is consistent with the signaling hypothesis. Although we do find support for the signaling hypothesis in general, we cannot find any statistical evidence of different returns for the two cash disbursement methods.