This paper straightforwardly discloses how an article written by Taiwanese scholars and published in Applied Economics is ridden with suspicious omissions. This misconduct leads to misinformation being printed in prominent journals as well as mistakenly listing eight medical doctors and three...

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This article studies the stickiness and smoothness of dividend policy from a new perspective, through examining the dividend policy of Taiwanese firms over 2005-2012. The issues we investigate include: the propensity to paying dividends, the magnitude of dividends and the periods between the...

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A study of the dates of shareholder meetings held in 2008 and 2009 reveals significant clustering. Especially on 13 June 2008, when 585 firms simultaneously held annual shareholders' meetings, accounting for 45.35% of the total market. Consequently, the Financial Supervisory Committee began to...

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Since the death of Steve Jobs, Apple has distributed eleven quarterly dividends. Of these, cash was paid 7 days after the ex-dividend date on nine occasions, and twice after 8 days. However, it used to pay cash at least 18 days after the ex-dividend date. When examining the whole market, firms...