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In the last dozen years, economists have produced a considerable body of research suggesting that the historical origin of a country’s laws is highly correlated with a broad range of its legal rules and regulations, as well as with economic outcomes. Much of this research has dealt with rules...
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paper tries to answer the question as to whether the increased dividend payments observed in Poland can be a symptom of … companies quoted in the years 1992–2014 on the Warsaw Stock Exchange tend towards the conclusion that the increase of dividend … dividend policy of the companies quoted on the WSE show similar tendencies to those of the developed equity markets, this may …
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Firms' inability to commit to future funding choices has profound consequences for capital structure dynamics. With debt in place, shareholders pervasively resist leverage reductions no matter how much such reductions may enhance firm value. Shareholders would instead choose to increase leverage...
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Dividend smoothing is a well-established empirical fact in developed countries. This paper investigates the dividend … developed countries. The empirical evidence shows that the dividend smoothing decision is influenced not only by a firm … of the Lintner model shows that the extent of dividend smoothing in Korean firms is found to be less than that in the U …
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We examine how equity-market frictions that restrict pessimistic trading, such as short-sale constraints, affect assessments of default risk. We find that these frictions decrease the usefulness of equity-market variables for identifying defaulting firms but increase their usefulness for...
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