Market movements and the excess cash theory

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance

Volumn 55, Issue , 2015, Pages 140-149

  Asem, Ebenezer ^a   Alam, Shamsul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dividend payments; Excess cash theory; Market's outlook

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027950106     PISSN: 10629769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.qref.2014.07.003     Document Type: Article

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