The four articles in this special issue of the Journal of Financial Economic Policy were presented at the tenth biannual joint session of the six worldwide Shadow Financial Regulatory Committees (Asian, Australia-New Zealand, European, Japanese, Latin American, and the United States) in Tokyo on...

We examine how changes in dividend policy in 2008 as the financial crisis was unfolding influenced firm risk-adjusted returns in the following years. Our sample consists of NYSE- and NASDAQ-traded firms that paid dividends in 2007. We divide these firms into four groups based on their dividend...

We examine how changes in dividend policy in 2008 as the financial crisis was unfolding influenced firm risk-adjusted returns in the following years. Our sample consists of NYSE- and NASDAQ-traded firms that paid dividends in 2007. We divide these firms into four groups based on their dividend...