Dividend policy of German firms. A panel data analysis of partial adjustment models

Journal of Empirical Finance

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 175-187

  Andres, Christian ^a   Betzer, André ^a   Goergen, Marc ^b   Renneboog, Luc ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Dividend policy; Dividend smoothing; Lintner dividend model; Partial adjustment model; Payout policy; Target payout ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 59249086352     PISSN: 09275398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jempfin.2008.08.002     Document Type: Article

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