Large Shareholders and Dividends: Evidence from U.S. Tax Reforms
Preprint
- 1 January 2002
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
This paper tests whether firms' dividend policy is determined by the preferences of their large shareholders. Exogenous variation from changing personal incomeKeywords
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