The role of earnings information in corporate dividend decisions

Management Science

Volumn 44, Issue 12 PART 2, 1998, Pages

  Hsu, Jumming ^a   Wang, Xu Ming ^a   Wu, Chunchi ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Error Correction; Exogenous Shocks; Generalized Friction Models; Monte Carlo Simulation; Permanent and Transitory Earnings; Steady State Targets; Survivorship Bias

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION THEORY; ERROR CORRECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RANDOM PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EARNINGS INFORMATIONS; EXOGENOUS SHOCKS; GENERALIZED FRICTION MODELS; STEADY-STATE TARGETS;

RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0032290780     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.44.12.s173     Document Type: Article

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