Largest shareholder and dividend policy around the world

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 667-687

  Truong, Thanh ^a   Heaney, Richard ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dividend policy; Largest shareholder; Legal system; Ownership

Indexed keywords

EID: 36248957191     PISSN: 10629769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.qref.2007.09.002     Document Type: Article

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