Patterns in payout policy and payout channel choice

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1477-1490

  Renneboog, Luc ^a   Trojanowski, Grzegorz ^b  

^a Center for Research in Economics and Business Tilburg University   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Dividends; Payout policy; Share repurchases; Taxes

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955674928     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2010.10.028     Document Type: Article

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