This paper presents an analysis based on a recently survey of the dividend policies of the listed firms in the Cypriot Stock Exchange. For the analysis we use a new methodology of correspondence analysis for the comparative evaluation of the opinions of members two or more different groups, as...

Using a sample of 86 counties, we examine the cross-sectional determinants of sovereign credit ratings around the world. We find that the quality of legal and political institutions of a country plays a vital role in determining sovereign credit ratings. A one standard deviation increase in our...

The Jumpstart Our Business Startups (“JOBS”) Act of 2012 intends to “help entrepreneurs raise the capital they need to put Americans back to work and create an economy that's built to last.” The goal is to “democratize startups” by making capital available to diverse entrepreneurs in...

This paper investigates the effect of internal information asymmetry (hereafter IIA) within conglomerate firms on the quality of management forecasts and financial statements. We develop a novel measure to capture IIA between divisional managers and top corporate managers, computed as the...

Most extant studies consider golden parachutes as the totality of change-in-control payments. However, for the median CEO of firms listed in the S&P SmallCap 600 index in 2009, golden parachute payments are only 46% of total change-in-control compensation. We measure total change-in-control...

Two criteria for choosing between capital investment projects are net present value (NPV) and internal rate of return (IRR). Sometimes they provide inconsistent rankings. This inconsistency sparked a debate about which criterion is better. The debate has lasted more than 100 years.This paper...

Firms change their dividend policy following changes in their retail trading clientele. Using stock splits as an instrument, we find that a stock split leads to a 5.5 percentage point increase in the proportion of retail trading volume, which subsequently leads to a 0.10 percentage point...

Finance has become more a problem than a solution to what the world most wants: socially inclusive growth. It has become a source of crises that threaten the development of the real economy. It has escaped accountability to democratic institutions and often helped, instead, to influence and...

Multiple interest rate analysis (MIRA) is the study of all interest rate solutions to the time value of money (TVM) equation. These solutions include not only the orthodox solution produced by a financial calculator or spreadsheet but also the unorthodox solutions that a typical financial...

The net present value (NPV) of an investment project having many potential outcomes can be expressed as a weighted average of the NPVs calculated from the individual outcomes, the weights being the outcome probabilities. Danielson (2016) demonstrates that this formula does not apply to the...