, multiple total stock return measures distinguishing dividend payouts from simple stock returns. Results suggest that both … explicit and implicit risks are positively related to dividend payouts and not to stock returns, while the overall effect on … exposure and, probably as a consequence, boards in carbon intensive companies use dividend policies to attract investment in …

contrast, other CEOs should be less likely to meet dividend expectations and less likely to downsize. We find confirmation of … this hypothesis. We also find that CEOs used the dividend forecasts for 2020 as their benchmark rather than the 2019 … dividends to make their dividend decision. …

This paper explores the role of religion in mitigating the degree to which unemployment reduces subjective well … method to tease out a causal relation between religion and well-being. We find that religion acts as a buffer: Unemployed …

into either Muslim or Hindu, guaranteeing exogenous variation in religion concordance between messenger and recipient … misconceptions are observed only when there is religion concordance and mainly for religious-salient misconceptions. Correcting …

We propose an equity finance model with agency problems and investigate the relationship between dividend taxation and … inefficient investments. Contrary to both the old and the new view of dividend taxation, a fall in the dividend tax rate is found …