Managerial finance : dividends and dividend policy / guest editors, professor H. Kent Baker and Dr. Rob Weigand.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baker, H. Kent, editor.

Weigand, Rob, editor.

Series:

Managerial Finance: Volume 41, Issue 2

Managerial Finance, 0307-4358 ; Volume 41, Number 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporations--Finance.

Corporations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (105 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford, [England] : Emerald, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

We present five noteworthy papers that contribute new insights to this timeless topic of Dividends and Payout policy. Dividend policy refers to the payout policy that a firm follows in determining the size and pattern of distributions to shareholders over time. For academics, explaining why firms actually pay dividends has been a thorny issue without a simple or obvious solution.. Judging from the number of books and articles on this subject, dividend policy has both captivated and puzzled academic researchers for decades. Many have been preoccupied with academic issues that are of little inte

Contents:

Cover; Editorial advisory board; Guest editorial; Corporate dividend policy revisited; Market power and dividend policy; Dividend yields and stock returns in Hong Kong; Dividend policy in India: new survey evidence; The post-repurchase announcement drift:an anomaly in disguise?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (ebrary, viewed April 24, 2015).

ISBN:

1-78441-972-9

OCLC:

909899768