Signaling, free cash flow and “nonmonotonic” dividends

Financial Review

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 21-56

  Fuller, Kathleen ^a   Blau, Benjamin M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency conflicts; Cash flow uncertainty; Dividend signaling models; Monotonicity condition; Payout policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015664329     PISSN: 07328516     EISSN: 15406288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6288.2009.00236.x     Document Type: Article

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