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This research aims to test dividend signaling theory in an Indonesian capital market. Signaling theory states that … dividend policy has information content that can influence to share price. Examination of theory of signaling is related to … research phenomena in other countries indicating that by percentage there is degradation of company which is pay dividend and …
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We study the incentives to acquire information from exclusive news sources versus information from popular sources in a CARA-normal asset market. Each trader is able to observe one of a finite number of news sources. Clustering on the most precise source can happen for two reasons. One is...
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than losing stocks, has an asymmetrical impact on the price adjustment on the ex-dividend day. Using aggregate market data … accrued gains have a higher market adjusted price drop than stocks with accrued losses on the ex-dividend day. Moreover, there … up (restrain) the downward price adjustment on the ex-dividend day. Our results remain robust to various ex-day price …
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, which employs a minute-by-minute trade and quote data recorded during the ex-dividend days of common stocks listed on NYSE …, AMEX and NASDAQ. Dufosky’s (1992) model concluded that the asymmetric adjustment of open limit orders for cash dividend … payments under the NYSE and AMEX rules is sufficient to create abnormal returns on the ex-dividend day. Empirical evidence …
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In the present paper we analyse the role of dividends distributed by firms and banks, highlighting the effects of their increase on financial instability and macroeconomic dynamics. During the last decades, the financialisation of nonfinancial corporations has been characterised by a shift from...
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This paper proposes a new measure of firm information asymmetry. The information asymmetry measure is based on causality tests relating repurchase information to firm returns. Our results indicate that firms with greater information asymmetry show larger abnormal returns surrounding the...
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We examine the payout policy of U.S. firms over the period 1980-2008. Prior research indicates that firm characteristics, managerial preferences, and investor clienteles are all important factors in setting payout policy. Counter to the oft-reported positive relation between senior citizens and...
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This paper investigates the relationship between demographic changes and the long-run returns of dividend …-fungible, the preference for high dividend-paying stocks by older investors means that the excess returns of high dividend … that, as consistent with the behavioural life-cycle hypothesis, the long-run returns of dividend-yield investment …
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According to the prior literature, family executives of family-controlled firms receive lower compensation than non-family executives. One of the key driving forces behind this is the existence of family members who are not involved in management, but own significant fraction of shares and...
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I analyze a model with heterogeneous investors who have incorrect beliefs about fundamentals. Investors think that they are right at first, but over time realize that they are wrong. The speed of the realization depends on investor confidence in own beliefs and arrival of new information. The...
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