This paper provides new international evidence on the relationship between dividend policy and insider ownership by analysing a sample of firms from countries characterised by an Anglo-Saxon tradition and a matching sample of companies from countries with Civil Law legal systems. We hypothesize...

This paper provides an examination of the ownership structure in Norwegian firms that announced repurchase plans during the period 1999 through 2001, as well as for groups of these firms conditional on whether they actually executed repurchases or not. By using detailed information on various...

We analyse dynamic financial contracting under moral hazard. The ability to rely on future rewards relaxes the tension between incentive and participation constraints, relative to the static case. Managers are incited by the promise of future payments after several successes and the threat of...

This paper presents a continuous time model of a firm that can dynamically adjust both its capital structure and its investment choices. The model extends the existing literature by endogenizing the investment choice as well as firm value, which are both determined by an exogenous price process...

The aim of the paper is to analyze the Chilean firms’ financial decisions on market value. The economic environment considers both the absence and existence of growth opportunities for a panel of 180 quoted Chilean companies during the period 1990 - 2001. Our results support the disciplinary...

This study solves the dispute between the free cash flow and tunneling hypotheses in explaining the role of cash dividends on asset expropriation of the controlling shareholders in Chinese listed firms. Investors value more the cash dividends and the cash holdings of firms with lower ownership...

Why do firms pay dividends? If they didn't their asset and capital structures would eventually become untenable as the earnings of successful firms outstrip their investment opportunities. Had they not paid dividends, the 25 largest long-standing 2002 dividend payers would have cash holdings of...

(VF)Cet article expose les principaux résultats tirés des travaux empiriques portant sur les causes et les conséquences des décisions financières prises par les dirigeants d’entreprises françaises. Les trois types de décisions étudiées sont les décisions d’investissement, les...

(VF)Cet article étudie les motivations des firmes canadiennes cotées à annoncer des programmes de rachat d’actions et l’impact de l’activité économique sur ce comportement. La distribution des flux monétaires excédentaires, l’envoi d’un signal ainsi que la prévention de la...

The notion of equality of shareholders, under the French civil code, jeopardized by the action of numerous minority shareholders in the courts or reported in the media. They seek, by these means, to prove that they have suffered loss through the extraction of "private benefits" by "control...