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Dividend Policy

Dividend policy is a corporate financial policy that determines the allocation of a firm's earnings between cash distributions to shareholders and retained earnings.

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Dividend Policy, Growth, and the Valuation of Shares

Merton H. Miller, Franco Modigliani · The Journal of Business · 1961 · 6.7K citations · Full text

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Dividend Policy under Asymmetric Information

Merton H. Miller, Kevin Rock · The Journal of Finance · 1985 · 3.2K citations

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Two Agency-Cost Explanations of Dividends

Frank H. Easterbrook · eYLS (Yale Law School) · 1984 · 3.1K citations

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Imperfect Information, Dividend Policy, and "The Bird in the Hand" Fallacy

Sudipto Bhattacharya · The Bell Journal of Economics · 1979 · 2.8K citations

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Dividend policy and the earned/contributed capital mix: a test of the life-cycle theory☆

Harry DeAngelo, Linda DeAngelo, René M. Stulz · Journal of Financial Economics · 2006 · 1.7K citations

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Authors

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    H. Kent Baker

    American University, United States

    20 publications · 1.8K citations

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    Omar Farooq

    Al Akhawayn University, Morocco

    9 publications · 210 citations

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  3. EK
    Erhan Kılınçarslan

    University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom

    8 publications · 429 citations

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  4. BA
    Basil Al‐Najjar

    Middlesex University, United Kingdom

    8 publications · 815 citations

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    Harry DeAngelo

    University of Southern California, United States

    8 publications · 3.9K citations

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Institutions

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  1. American University

    Washington, United States

    15 h-index

    15 publications

    1.2K citations

  2. Udayana University

    Denpasar, Indonesia

    14 h-index

    35 publications

    1.1K citations

  3. European Corporate Governance Institute

    Brussels, Belgium

    13 h-index

    20 publications

    1.2K citations

  4. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    12 h-index

    17 publications

    6.7K citations

  5. Universitas Trisakti

    Jakarta, Indonesia

    11 h-index

    23 publications

    584 citations

  6. Universitas Patria Artha

    Makassar, Indonesia

    11 h-index

    21 publications

    795 citations

  7. COMSATS University Islamabad

    Islamabad, Pakistan

    9 h-index

    10 publications

    514 citations

  8. Tilburg University

    Tilburg, The Netherlands

    9 h-index

    10 publications

    468 citations

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  1. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 106 publications · 4.7K citations

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  2. The Journal of Finance

    29 publications · 9.1K citations

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  3. Managerial Finance

    31 publications · 1.2K citations

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  4. Journal of Corporate Finance

    25 publications · 1.3K citations

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  5. Journal of Business Finance &amp Accounting

    21 publications · 1.3K citations

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See also

Dividend Policy

Determinants

Theoretical Models

Market Effects

Payout Forms

Policy Patterns