Disentangling the dividend information in splits: A decomposition using conditional event-study methods

Review of Financial Studies

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1083-1116

  Nayak, Subhankar ^b   Prabhala, Nagpurnanand R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 0035643604     PISSN: 08939454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rfs/14.4.1083     Document Type: Article

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