when they suffer an earnings decline. We test three hypotheses behind the cash dividend policy: the maturity hypothesis … directors). The findings are largely consistent with the maturity hypothesis and the free cash flow hypothesis but do not …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the evolutionary path to market maturity that China property market …/methodology/approach – In this research, the authors apply the market maturity framework and its key determinants based on previous work … progress towards greater market maturity. Research limitations/implications – The small same size of the survey is the major …

maturity among practitioners. Project management maturity is the progressive development of an enterprise-wide project … management approach, methodology, strategy, and decision-making process. To ascertain the level of maturity among project … oriented organisations in Ghana the following research questions were raised: Is the concept of PM maturity understood in Ghana …

In this paper we first propose a proxy for the maturity of a country’s export bundle based on product life cycle theory …. Employing a conditional latent class model, we then examine the effect of maturity of countries’ exports on their economic … faster when they specialize in less mature products in an advanced country regime. The effect of maturity turns insignificant …

average maturity of government debt. We analyse these relationships under two different institutional settings. In one case … given. We identify the main mechanisms through which inflation is affected by debt and debt maturity (a real balance effect … monetary and fiscal policy we find that the persistence and volatility of inflation depends on the sign, size and maturity …

This paper explores the relationship between inflation and the existence of a publicly-traded, long-maturity, nominal …

state. We also assume that capital accumulation is a decreasing function in employment to consider maturity which defines …

theory. Employing a conditional latent class model, we then examine the relationship between export maturity and economic …In this paper we first propose a proxy for the maturity of a country’s export bundle based on the product life cycle …