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We investigate dividend smoothing behaviors of approximately 6,000 firms from 28 countries. The data find a wide … variation in the extent of dividend smoothing across countries, while US firms smooth dividends the most. Firms with a … concentrated ownership structure adjust their dividends quickly, especially when the target dividend level is lower than dividends …
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After a big post-2008 increase in the fraction of firms distributing cash in the U.S. -both as dividends and repurchases-, and the end of the increasing popularity of repurchases in other developed and emerging countries, the share of payers is no longer significantly lower in the U.S. than...
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This paper describes an effort to extend the record of US stock market returns past the 1871 terminus of the Cowles (1938) data familiar from Schiller (2015). I combined the archival data supplied by Goetzmann, Ibbotson and Peng (2001) with data supplied by Sylla, Wilson and Wright (2006), and...
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Declining R&D intensities at the national level coincide with growing international technological links. Deviations of individual OECD countries from the average R&D intensity reflect differences in industry structure as well as in sectoral R&D intensity. At the same time, the sectoral...
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