How do lenders use their reputation when participating in syndicated loans? I address this question by focusing on … syndicate composition with respect to participants' reputation and its impact on loan spreads. I find that lender reputation … market finance features, rather than bank finance. However I find no evidence that lenders use their reputation and the …

In this paper we consider an alternative dividend payment strategy in risk theory, where the dividend rate can never … dividend payment strategies of barrier and threshold type. We study the case where once during the lifetime of the risk process … the dividend rate can be increased and derive corresponding formulae for the resulting expected discounted dividend …

The optimal investment-dividend policy of a financially constrained firm whose earnings are subject to additive shocks …

testing method, which does not rely on distributional assumptions to aggregate the information from the time series of price-dividend … ratios and dividend growth. We find evidence of return predictability, but no apparent evidence of dividend growth …