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. A sensitivity analysis suggests that the COVID-19 shock will have a substantial impact on firms' profitability …
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We analyze the profitability of FX swaps used by the central bank of Brazil to shed light on the rationale for FX …
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The recent plunge in oil prices has brought into question the generally accepted view that lower oil prices are good for the United States and the global economy. In this paper, using a quarterly multi-country econometric model, we first show that a fall in oil prices tends relatively quickly to...
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Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) tend to lag those in most other regions in terms of governance and perceptions of corruption. Weak governance undermines economic performance through various channels, including deficiencies in government functions and distortions to economic incentives. It...
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, using data from around the time of the 1997 U.K. dividend tax reform, which removed a significant tax credit for an … dividend tax rates across all investors, and that U.K. pension funds should reduce their holdings of the previously tax …
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revised dividend discount model, error-correction model, and multi-factor return-generating model. Despite the large …
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has been relatively limited analysis of the dividend behavior of multinationals. We find that investors in multinationals … dividends, consistent with a view that such regular dividend payments are a mechanism through which to discipline host …-country managers. In contrast, German investors, who tend to invest in riskier countries, do not appear to demand persistent dividend …
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with historical averages, and the dividend/price ratio has recently reached a historic low. These developments and record … paper assesses the recent rise in the stock market using a model for the equilibrium dividend/price ratio. While economic … variables can account for most of the recent fall in the dividend/price ratio, mutual-fund inflows still have some marginal …
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