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The article analyses inter-dependencies between dividend, capital structure, and cost of capital, factoring the … concentrated ownership. Dividend, leverage, and average cost of capital are inter-linked. However, family firms pay lower dividends …
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We analyze how the introduction of repurchases in 1998, and a major tax reform in 2001, affected the payout policy of German firms. To this end, we estimate Lintner (1956) partial adjustment models for both dividends and total payouts. We also analyze the implications for payout of changes in...
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This paper explores the relationship between employee rights and dividend policy across countries. Using labor right … index as a proxy for agency costs of employees, we test the association between labor rights and dividend policies across … dividend payment amounts. This relationship is reinforced to be more salient in civil countries where shareholder rights are …
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This paper explores the relationship between employee rights and dividend policy across countries. Using labor right … index as a proxy for agency costs of employees, we test the association between labor rights and dividend policies across … dividend payment amounts. This relationship is reinforced to be more salient in civil countries where shareholder rights are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131140
.We determine the optimal dividend and (unconstrained) capital injection strategy when jumps are hyperexponential. This strategy … happens to be either a dividend barrier strategy without capital injections, or another dividend barrier strategy with forced … injections when the surplus is null to prevent ruin. The latter is also shown to be the optimal dividend and capital injection …
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This paper is the first investigation of the interplay between dividends and risk taking in banks. I examine the role of dividends as a risk-shifting mechanism that can exacerbate moral hazard, controlling for standard determinants of dividends in nonfinancial firms. My main findings show that...
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We show that while firms that typically pay dividends already have high ratios of retained-earnings-to-total-equity (RE/TE) and high propensities to pay (PTP) early on, firms that typically do not pay dividends have persistently low RE/TE and low PTP even after 20 years of growth. This...
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.We determine the optimal dividend and (unconstrained) capital injection strategy (among all possible strategies) when jumps are … hyperexponential. This strategy happens to be either a dividend barrier strategy without capital injections, or another dividend … dividend and capital injection strategy, if ruin is not allowed to occur. Both the choice to inject capital or not and the …
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This paper finds that dividend signaling hypothesis is able to explain the phenomenon of assets concentration in short … and medium investments in Islamic Interest-Free banking (IIFBs). In this paper a dividend signaling model framework has … been introduced, where in the process of maintaining a stable dividend, mangers of Islamic Interest-Free banking (IIFBs …
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We study the problem of optimal dividend payments for a company of limited liability whose cash reserves in the absence … of the chain. In this setup, our main purpose is to maximize the expected cumulative discounted dividend payments until …
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