Costly Dividend Signaling: The Case of Loss Firms with Negative Cash Flows

We examine the dividend-signaling hypothesis in a sample of firms for which dividend increases are particularly costly, namely loss firms with negative cash flows. When compared to loss firms with positive cash flows, we find the predictive power of dividend inc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Joos, Peter, Plesko, George
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: 2004
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7396