The intra-industry impact of special dividend announcements: Contagion versus competition

Journal of Multinational Financial Management

Volumn 14, Issue 4-5, 2004, Pages 369-385

  Balachandran, Balasingham ^a   Faff, Robert ^a   Nguyen, Tuan Anh ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Competition; Contagion; Information transfer; Price reaction; Special dividend

Indexed keywords

EID: 4043154441     PISSN: 1042444X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mulfin.2004.02.002     Document Type: Article

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