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Dividend policy determines the ratio between the earnings distributed to shareholders and the earnings retained in the company. Even though retained earnings are one of the most important funding sources used for financing corporate growth, the accrued dividends represent stakeholders' cash...
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Stabilität.Während sich in den USA das Kurs-Gewinn-Verhältnis auf einen Wert zwischen 10 und 15 stabilisiert, stieg es in Japan … der Börse von Tokyo. Die Bank von Japan hat in dieser Zeit durch fünf Diskontsatzerhöhungen den japanischen Zins dem …
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likely to miss their earnings forecast at the end of the fiscal year and revise their forecasts downward to meet their … earnings forecasts for the period, suggesting that forecast management through discretionary forecasting produces less credible … thus overprice them at the forecast announcement. …
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The objective of this paper is to examine the relation between share repurchases and stock options. In fact, certain studies demonstrate that the development of stock option plans since the beginning of the 1990s is also considered one explanation for the increase in equity programs for...
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Empirical studies of open-market share repurchases in the U.S. typically find a mean abnormal return around the announcement day of about 3%. In Germany share repurchases were highly restricted before May 1998. Since then firms have repurchased shares in the open market more than 250 times....
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Share repurchases were deregulated in Taiwan in 2000. The regulatory provisions and the government's stated aim of market stabilization provide a setting in which share repurchases are exclusively motivated by undervaluation. This study investigates if deregulation of share repurchases is an...
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One of the most complex and controversial issues confronting the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) over the last several years has been the accounting and financial reporting of stock options. In December 2004, the FASB issued Statement 123R, Share-Based Payment, in the hope that the...
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Our paper provides evidence regarding the use of share repurchases as an earnings management mechanism in the presence of debt-financing constraints as well as the impact of these constraints on the use of accruals and other real earnings management techniques. We document that share repurchases...
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This paper considers share repurchases as the way long-term shareholders preserve their ability to use corporate information for speculative purposes when insider trading regulation is enforced. This use of corporate information increases the adverse selection losses of short-term shareholders....
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