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Agency cost, market risk, investment opportunities and dividend policy – an international perspective
D’Souza, Juliet; Saxena, Atul K. - In: Managerial Finance 25 (1999) 6, pp. 35-43
Reviews previous research on dividend policy, most of which is US‐based, and presents a worldwide study of the relationship between dividend payout, agency costs, market risk and investment opportunities. Finds that the dividend payout ratio is significantly negatively related to institutional...
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Managerial ownership, dividend and debt policy in the US banking industry
Dutta, Amitabh S. - In: Managerial Finance 25 (1999) 6, pp. 57-68
Reviews previous research on the relationship between ownership structure, debt structure and dividend policy within the context of agency theory, which has usually excluded regulated firms from the samples. Explores the links between insider holdings, dividends and debt using 1994‐1997 data...
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ESOPs and employee attitudes
Gamble, John E.; Culpepper, Robert; Blubaugh, Meg G. - In: Personnel Review 31 (2002) 1, pp. 9-26
This paper examines how management approaches to employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) implementation affects such employee work‐related attitudes as job satisfaction, ESOP satisfaction, and job involvement. Structural‐equation modeling assesses the responses of 321 airline pilots who were...
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From Private to Public: The Choice and Requirements
Holden, Paul - In: Management Decision 27 (1989) 5
Private companies go public for a variety of reasons. Whatever the motive, shareholders and directors should have a clear understanding of the implications and responsibilities arising from this change of status. The author examines every aspect of public company status and presents an analysis...
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How unemployment benefits affect individuals of different wealth classes
Corsini, Lorenzo - In: International Journal of Manpower 34 (2013) 6, pp. 693-711
Purpose – This paper investigates whether the effect of unemployment benefits (UB) on unemployment duration is the same for individuals belonging to different wealth groups. Design/methodology/approach – Using a sample of newly unemployed individuals from Italy in 2007, we perform...
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Globalization (fighting), corruption and development
Asongu, Simplice - In: Journal of Economic Studies 41 (2014) 3, pp. 346-369
Purpose – Is globalization instrumental in fighting corruption? Do wealth effects matter in this fight? Are findings valid when linearity assumptions are dropped? The purpose of this paper is to assess the Lalountas et al. (2011) hypotheses (conclusions) in the African context....
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Efficiency Measurement of Housing Sector in Iran
Sepehrdoust, Hamid - In: Asian Journal of Law and Economics 1 (2010) 2
The present research provides a critical review of the housing industry efficiency and its future in Iran. Data … Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is used to evaluate housing industry performance in different states based on the relevant data … government in finding a solution to the current housing problem.  …
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Is There an East European Housing Bubble?
Shelburne, Robert C.; Palacin, Jose - In: Global Economy Journal 6 (2006) 3
along with the implications of the housing market developments for consumer spending, fiscal and monetary policy. The … possibility of a housing bubble and bust is examined along with its implications for the economy; policy options to minimize this …
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Für und Wider eines Rückgangs ostdeutscher Mieten / A Brief Discussion of Letting East Germany’s Rents Fall
Dascher, Kristof - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 226 (2006) 3, pp. 336-340
worries, put forward by Wolfgang Maennig, are: (1) that housing suppliers could withdraw as rents fall, while (2) housing … demanders might hesitate to expand consumption as rents fall. - This note insists that falling rents’ overall benefits would …
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Green performs better: energy efficiency and financial return on buildings
Cajias, Marcelo; Piazolo, Daniel - In: Journal of Corporate Real Estate 15 (2013) 1, pp. 53-72
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of energy consumption on the financial performance of … authors create portfolios of buildings across several energy consumption levels in order to describe the energy pricing … decline in energy consumption affects the total return of buildings positively by +0.015 percent. The hedonic results …
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