Current study focuses on examining the determinants of share repurchases in Swedish firms listed on NASDAQ OMX Nordic during the period 2000-2011. It tests the variety of different hypotheses that were previously empirically shown to be associated with share repurchases in other countries (primarily U.S.). However, as expected, the majority of these hypotheses do not hold in case of Sweden which might be explained by the specificity of Swedish corporate governance system. Thus, unlike the results of many empirical researches based on U.S. data evidence was found that companies repurchase...