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Agency Issues in a Family Controlled Corporate Governance Structure The Case of Italy [PDF]

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This study provides empirical evidence on the relationship between dividend payout ratios, executive compensation and agency costs in Italy. Corporate governance in Italy is distinguished by the fact that a large number of Italian firms are family ...
Julie Ann Elston   +2 more
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Parenthood and CEO Responses to Media Criticism on Pay

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Research on media coverage of controversial corporate practices typically suggests firms respond instrumentally to mitigate stakeholder reactions. However, we argue that CEOs' moral concerns can sometimes override strategic considerations, because media criticism may expose them to scrutiny from personally valued audiences – for instance ...
Steffen Brenner, Georg Wernicke
wiley   +1 more source

Corporate Risk Management and Dividend Signaling Theory [PDF]

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This paper investigates the effect of corporate risk management on dividend policy. We extend the signaling framework of Bhattacharya (1979) by including the possibility of hedging the future cash flow.
Georges Dionne, Karima Ouederni
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Information‐Theoretic Approach to Financial Market Modeling

open access: yesMathematical Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper treats the financial market as a communication system, using four information‐theoretic assumptions to derive an idealized model with only one parameter. State variables are scalar stationary diffusions. The model maximizes the surprisal of the market and minimizes the Kullback–Leibler divergence between the benchmark‐neutral pricing
Eckhard Platen
wiley   +1 more source

How did the 2003 dividend tax cut affect stock prices? [PDF]

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We test the hypothesis that the 2003 dividend tax cut boosted U.S. stock prices and thus lowered the cost of equity. Using an event- study methodology, we attempt to identify an aggregate stock market effect by comparing the behavior of U.S. common stock
Steven Sharpe   +2 more
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Coordinating Bank Dividend and Capital Regulation

open access: yesMathematical Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how state‐dependent dividend restrictions (taxes and bans) and capital requirements influence a bank's capital buffer accumulation and risk‐taking decisions. In the model, the bank distributes dividends and issues costly equity to maximise shareholder value, while its loans generate stochastic income under time‐varying ...
Salvatore Federico   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Neutral Taxation of Shareholder Income? Corporate Responses to an Announced Dividend Tax [PDF]

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The introduction of the 2006 Norwegian shareholder income tax was announced in advance, and it increased top marginal tax rates on individual dividend income from zero to 28 percent.
Annette Alstadsæter, Erik Fjaerli
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Learning From 25 Years of Changes in Business Tax Policy

open access: yesPublic Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper summarizes the significant changes to the taxation of business income in the United States over the last 25 years and how the resulting policy variation has helped inform research on business taxation. The survey of research on the topic covers investment incentives, international taxation, corporate financial policy, issues with ...
Jason DeBacker, Aerfate Haimiti
wiley   +1 more source

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