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We investigate firms' decisions to pay elective stock dividends, known in the UK as scrip dividends. Scrip dividends give investors the choice between receiving new shares or the equivalent value as a cash dividend. UK firms paying scrip dividends are more likely to be financially constrained,...
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We investigate firms' decisions to pay elective stock dividends, known in the UK as scrip dividends. Scrip dividends give investors the choice between receiving new shares or the equivalent value as a cash dividend. UK firms paying scrip dividends are more likely to be financially constrained,...
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This study investigates movements of the stock return volatility during election periods (from one-year before an … election to one-year after the election) with the use of data from 16 countries. The main findings of this study are (1) stock … return volatility declines over time as elections approach, (2) the level of the stock return volatility during election …
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and change in returns relative to the previous day's returns during election periods. However, there exists strong …, when it gets close to the election date, the degree of volatility hike is observed to be stronger. Based on comparisons …
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