Dividend reductions have long been considered a "last resort" action for firm managers. Managerial reluctance to reduce dividends emanates from the view that dividend drops signal managerial pessimism regarding future earnings. Contrary to expectations, studies show that earnings rebound...

This paper analyzes security-market returns relative to the political party of the president, the Federal Reserve's monetary policy, the year of the president's term, and the state of political gridlock. Contrary to prior studies, which evaluated the influences separately, we jointly evaluate...

We perform a comprehensive evaluation of the benefits of emerging market equities by extending previous research in four fundamental ways. The contribution of this study is that it 1) evaluates a more complete sample; 2) examines performance measures that account for asymmetric return...

This article examines the relationship between security returns and political gridlock, which occurs when the U.S. House of Representatives, Senate, and presidency are not controlled by the same political party. The findings support the following conclusions: First, the common view that equities...

Using 24 years of data, we show that emerging market equities are a worthy addition to a U.S. investor's portfolio of developed market equities. Specifically, portfolio returns increased by approximately 1.5 percentage points a year when emerging country equities were included in the investment...

We find evidence of a systematic link between monetary conditions and inter-temporal variation in the price of liquidity. Specifically, following an expansive monetary policy shift, funding conditions improve and market-wide liquidity increases, which is especially beneficial for illiquid...

The claim that dividend payments serve as signals to market participants is widely accepted. However, recent evidence has increased the uncertainty regarding the information conveyed when a firm drops its dividend. In particular, DeAngelo, DeAngelo, and Skinner (1992) and Healy and Palepu (1988)...