Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the absolute and risk-adjusted stock return performance of the US health care industry conditional upon the presidential administration’s political party and the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy stance. It evaluates this return...

Purpose: This paper aims to examine the relationship between the dividend signaling hypothesis and a firm's life cycle. Design/methodology/approach: The authors use Dickinson's (2011) methodology to develop a proxy for the firm's stages in its life cycle and to examine the relationship between...