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This paper points out the problems of liquidity, disposal and obtaining funds, inability to collect receivables, delayed payments in times of economic and financial instability and dynamic business upheavals and uncertainty. As a contribution to resolve these issues new alternative methods of...
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This paper examines the reaction of the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE) to dividend announcements by a sample of firms listed at the FTSE/ATHEX 20 and FTSE/ATHEX Mid 40 for a fixed period 2004-2008. It also provides analytical information about the Greek Stock Market and the regulations underlying...
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Share repurchase happens when a company repurchases its own shares for any purpose determined by the general meeting of …. However, contrary to dividends, it is quite a new legal institution, which gained importance in developed capital markets as … repurchasing and changing relations between purchasing shares and paying out dividends in developed capital markets. It also …
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This study investigates corporate reactions to the deregulation of stock repurchases that began on October 01, 2001, in … Japan, by closely examining the motivations for stock repurchases, by which we study firms' usage of treasury stocks and … identify the characteristics of firms that were more likely to increase repurchases in response to deregulation. We found that …
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sector of Malaysia. -- dividends ; investment opportunity set ; corporate finance ; emerging markets …
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results show on average significant influence of profitability and debt level on the size of the dividends. Influence of size …
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, the focus is on empirical test of signaling theory. This theory says that the payment of dividends provides information … indicates that larger firms pay more dividends. -- dividend policy ; signaling theory ; corporate operating characteristics …
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This paper presents the extensive literature survey based both on theoretical rationales for hedging as well as the empirical evidence that support the implications of the theory regarding the arguments for the corporate risk management relevance and its influence on the company's value. The...
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The paper examines the corporate governance mechanism of the control model (or insider control system) by looking at both the motivation for management to deviate from following their principal's wishes and whether the supervising body, the board of directors would correct them. Some...
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This paper investigates the effects of Greece's European Union (EU) accession and European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) entry, as well as R&D intensity and industry concentration on job creation and job destruction in the Greek manufacturing sector. The study is based on firm-level economic...
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