The post-announcement performance of dividend-changing companies: The dividend-signalling hypothesis revisited

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 131-151

  Gunasekarage, Abeyratna ^a   Power, David M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dividend signalling hypothesis; Excess returns; Financial performance; Post announcement performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646794823     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-629X.00071     Document Type: Article

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