Dividends and Share Repurchases in the European Union

By Henk von Eije, W. Megginson. 2008

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Subfields: Accounting, Strategy and Management

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1. W. Megginson
2. Timothée Waxin
3. Edith Ginglinger

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2. Timothée Waxin
3. Edith Ginglinger

Citations in the corpus

• Taxation, Dividends, and Share Repurchases: Taking Evidence Global (2013, unknown): “Fourth, Von Eije and Megginson (2008) report that improved standards of financial disclosure reduce the need to make cash distributions, and the amount of dividends paid or shares repurchased.”
• Catering Effects in Corporate Dividend Policy: The International Evidence (2009, unknown): “to pay dividends over the 1998-2002 sub-period. Eije and Megginson (2008) study fifteen”
• Capital structure decisions in family firms: empirical evidence from a bank-based economy (2011, unknown): “However, we adapt the payout ratio as suggested by Julio and Ikenberry (2004) and von Eije and Megginson (2008): We set the payout ratio to 1 if it is negative (because of negative income) or above one.”
• The dividend-price ratio does predict dividend growth: International evidence (2009, unknown): “Second, in the US share repurchases have been an important part of payout policy since 1982, while this behavior rst played an important role in European rms in the mid or late 1990s, c.f. von Eije and Megginson (2008).”
• Yes, dividends are disappearing: Worldwide evidence (2012, unknown): “Within this framework, the findings of Fama and French regarding a ‘‘declining propensity to pay,’’ may be interpreted as a strengthening of corporate governance procedures, at least in the US. See, for example, La Porta et al. (2000), who rely on the strength of corporate governance mechanisms to s”
• Employee Ownership, Board Representation, and Corporate Financial Policies (2011, result): “Consistent with existing literature [see Skinner (2008) for U.S. and von Eije and Megginson (2008) for European evidence] share repurchases are significantly positively related to firm size and, but only significantly so in fixed effects regressions, to profitability (ROA).”