Dividend Policy Decisions

Behavioral Finance: Investors, Corporations, and Markets

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 435-451

  David, Itzhak Ben ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency problems; Corporate policy; Dividends; Policy decisions; Shareholders

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886158976     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118258415.ch23     Document Type: Chapter

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