tax rates on individual dividend income from zero to 28 percent. We document strong timing effects on dividend payout on a …

The aim of this paper is to identify the key determinants of the dividend policies for Malaysian listed firms. The … sample in this study incorporates the top 100 listed firms on Bursa Malaysia (Bursa) over a ten-year period from 2007 to 2016 …. The dynamic panel data set was constructed using the sample firms. The results indicate that dividend policies are …

capital structure are highlighted through separately observing debt and equity and their relationship to investment …

financially turbulent periods in the 2000s in making investment decisions and in meeting demand for liquidity. A rise in … uncertainty regarding the ability to obtain external funds may have induced firms to rely on internal funds to finance investment … activities. Therefore, we shed light on the cash flow sensitivity of investment and cash holdings by estimating firm- level …

Output growth, investment and the real interest rate in long run evidence tend to be negatively affected by inflation … investment rate, opposite of evidence. The paper resolves this puzzle by requiring exchange for investment as well as consumption …. Inflation then decreases the investment rate, and still decreases both output growth and real interest up to some moderately …

total investment in intangibles was 227 billion or approximately two-thirds of the total investment in fixed capital in 2004 …. Thus, investment in intangibles was considerable in 2004. The corresponding figures for the UK and the US were 10.9 and 13 …

recognizing that firms make substantial investment in intangible assets such as R&D, design, advertising etc. These investments … are not classified as investment in the National Accounts, where only tangible assets are defined as investment. This … paper provides estimates of investment in intangible assets and uses the growth accounting framework to analyze the Swedish …