In accounting models of value dividends typically appear to have a strong positive relationship with value despite theoretical reasons to expect dividend displacement. We show that this result is driven by the relationship between dividends and both core earnings and other information derived...

Using a large sample of 3,066 firm-year observations, representing 372 distinct firms listed on IDX during the period 1995-2012, we show that dividends are reliably positively priced by the capital market, violating thus the dividend displacement theorem. This result persists even after...

This article presents an empirical analysis of the financial behavior of Slovenian firms. It focuses on the goal of the firm, capital budgeting, capital structure, and dividend-payout decisions. Three theories of financial behavior, neoclassical, post-Keynesian, and employee governance, with...