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Optimal Job Design and Information Elicitation
The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT When managers rely on their subordinates for local information but cannot commit to how such information is used, the incentives for effort and information elicitation become intertwined. This incentive problem influences the firm's job design decision, that is, whether to assign all tasks in a job to one worker (“individual assignment”) or ...
Arijit Mukherjee +2 more
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Dividend Policy of the ISE Industrial Corporations: The Evidence Revisited (1986-2007) [PDF]
The study aims to find out whether the disappearing dividends, the decline in the number of dividend payers, the size effect and the increasing dividend/earnings concentration found in several developed and emerging markets exist among the industrials ...
Cahit Adaoglu
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Optimal Dividend Payout Model with Risk Sensitive Preferences
, 2017 We consider a discrete-time dividend payout problem with risk sensitive shareholders. It is assumed that they are equipped with a risk aversion coefficient and construct their discounted payoff with the help of the exponential premium principle.
Bäuerle, Nicole, Jaśkiewicz, Anna
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Lawyer CEOs and Strategic Disclosure of Litigation Loss Contingencies
Abacus, EarlyView.Using hand‐collected data, we find that lawyer CEOs, defined as CEOs with a legal education background, tend to make first disclosures about pending litigation cases on a timelier basis for litigation cases that end up with material losses than do non‐lawyer CEOs.
Feng Chen +3 more
wiley +1 more source
Dividend Behaviour of Indian Companies Under Monetary Policy Restrictions [PDF]
In this study we examine the dividend behaviour of Indian companies. We use GMM estimator, which is the most suitable methodology in a dynamic setting. Our results show that the Indian firms have lower target ratios and higher adjustment factors.
Bhat Ramesh, Pandey I M
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Analisis Faktor – Faktor yang Mempengaruhi Kebijakan Dividen [PDF]
, 2012 This research used multiple regression method to examine the relationships between the profitability, investment opportunity, leverage and dividend payout ratio previous year with dividend policy.
Kristanto, A. B. (Ari) +2 more
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When the Former CEO Acts as Board Chair: Does This Matter to Debt Policy and Risk of Default?
Abacus, EarlyView.This paper scrutinizes the interconnections between debt capital raising, firm risk of default, and the presence of a former CEO who now serves as a board chairperson, referred to as the Chair‐Former‐CEO (CFC). Employing a sample of the largest non‐financial firms within the US S&P 100 from 2002 to 2018, our results reveal that, when compared to their ...
Vu Quang Trinh +2 more
wiley +1 more source
Is the Dividend Puzzle Solved? [PDF]
Since the 1960’s, there is an ongoing debate on dividend policy, which remains a controversial issue to this day. Why do firms pay dividends? The academics have not been able to agree on any convincing explanation, and the same time, many even claim that
Maria Rosa Borges
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Co‐opted Boards and the Obfuscation of Financial Reports
Abacus, EarlyView.This study investigates the relationship between board co‐option and the obfuscation of financial disclosures in a comprehensive sample of 9,620 10‐K filings by 1,076 US‐listed firms between 1996 and 2018. Our empirical results are consistent with our hypotheses that board co‐option partly explains the obfuscation of financial reports.
Abongeh A. Tunyi +3 more
wiley +1 more source
Kinerja Keuangan dan Ukuran Perusahaan terhadap Harga Saham dengan Kebijakan Dividen sebagai Variabel Intervening [PDF]
, 2017 This was research conducted to examine the effect of the leverage ratio, activity ratio, and size firmon stock price with dividend policy as a mediating variable the companies listed in Indonesia StockExchange 2012-2014.
Wijaya, R. (Rico)
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