Does Better Corporate Governance Encourage Higher Payout? : Risk, Agency Cost, and Dividend Policy
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Dividend policy; Idiosyncratic risk; Corporate governance; Stock repurchase; Dividend initiation; Agency costs;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- G10 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
- G30 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CFN-2016-04-16 (Corporate Finance)
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