Information associated with dividend initiations: Firm-specific or industry-wide?

Financial Management

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 17-26

  Howe, John S ^a   Shen, Yang Pin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0032267718     PISSN: 00463892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3666271     Document Type: Article

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