Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between good corporate governance and dividend payment in the regulated insurance industry. Design/methodology/approach – A modification of Rozeff's transaction cost/agency cost trade‐off model was estimated on a sample of...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the potential impact of political party control on bank profitability and risk. This study extends previous work by looking at overall political power with respect to party control of the House, Senate, and the Presidency....