Cross-Country Determinants of Payout Policy: European Firms

Dividends and Dividend Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 71-93

  Bancel, Franck ^a   Bhattacharyya, Nalinaksha ^b   Mittoo, Usha R ^c  

^a ESCP EUROPE   (France)

^b University of Alaska   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dividend policy; Empirical modelling; Free cash flow hypothesis; Screening model; Signaling theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861761556     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118258408.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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