Gillet, Roland; Lapointe, Marc-André; Raimbourg, Philippe - In: Journal of Business Finance & Accounting 35 (2008-04) 3-4, pp. 516-540
We examine the role of reputation when firms use dividends to signal their profitability. We analyze a signaling model in which reputation plays no role in equilibrium. We then show that taking reputation into account as a link between sequential dividend decisions makes it possible to...