Dividend stickiness and strategic pooling

Review of Financial Studies

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 4455-4495

  Guttman, Ilan ^a   Kadan, Ohad ^b   Kandel, Eugene ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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EID: 78649484070     PISSN: 08939454     EISSN: 14657368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rfs/hhq096     Document Type: Article

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