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This paper investigates whether foreign institutional investors in emerging markets can enhance shareholder value. We pay special attention to two dimensions of investor heterogeneity: whether an investor declares itself as an activist, and whether an investor comes from a country with a strong...
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subject to incentive regulation smooth their dividends less than firms subject to cost plus regulation but also present higher … competition-like efficiency pressures following the adoption of incentive regulation, they are more inclined to cut dividends when …
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Dividend signaling models suggest that dividends are used to convey information about future earnings to investors … level unionization, I found that the power of dividends as predictors of future earnings tends to be higher for non …
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The authors perform an original research on the fundamentals of winning virtuous strategies creation toward the leveraged buyout transactions implementation during the private equity investment in the conditions of the resonant absorption of discrete information in the diffusion - type financial...
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According to the prior literature, family executives of family-controlled firms receive lower compensation than non-family executives. One of the key driving forces behind this is the existence of family members who are not involved in management, but own significant fraction of shares and...
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This paper investigates the relationship between demographic changes and the long-run returns of dividend-yield investment strategies in the US. We hypothesise that in a world where components of wealth are mentally treated as being non-fungible, the preference for high dividend-paying stocks by...
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This paper proposes a new measure of firm information asymmetry. The information asymmetry measure is based on causality tests relating repurchase information to firm returns. Our results indicate that firms with greater information asymmetry show larger abnormal returns surrounding the...
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oft-reported positive relation between senior citizens and the use of dividends, our results indicate that senior citizens … are either indifferent between dividends and repurchases or demand dividends and have no influence over firm policy. The …
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The authors perform an original research on the fundamentals of winning virtuous strategies creation toward the leveraged buyout transactions implementation during the private equity investment in the conditions of the resonant absorption of discrete information in the diffusion - type financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111186
The authors perform an original research on the fundamentals of winning virtuous strategies creation toward the leveraged buyout transactions implementation during the private equity investment in the conditions of the resonant absorption of discrete information in the diffusion - type financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011156987