"DIVIDENDS: ANOTHER MEANING"

"DAD bought Another Toy": Meaning Making and Emotions with tablets

This paper examines the interplay between meaning and emotion of tablet users during the interaction with these artifacts. Following an interpretive case study approach, we examine users’ meaning making as the context of use changes from the business context to the personal environment, trailing users’ interpretation of the tablet and their overall experience, in order to detect changes in thei...

The meaning of medications: another look at compliance.

Most research on compliance with medical regimens takes a doctor-centered perspective and proceeds from certain assumptions. This paper presents an alternative, patient-centered approach to managing medications, using data from 80 in-depth interviews of people with epilepsy. This approach focuses on the meanings of medication in people's everyday lives and looks at why people take their medicat...

Dividends with Demand Response

Risk, Return and Dividends∗

We characterize the joint dynamics of expected returns, stochastic volatility, and prices. In particular, with a given dividend process, one of the processes of the expected return, the stock volatility, or the price-dividend ratio fully determines the other two. For example, the stock volatility determines the expected return and the price-dividend ratio. By parameterizing one, or more, of exp...

The Distribution of Corporate Dividends

Of primary importance to the investor in corporate shares is the dividend return. But many a purchaser of shares has other dominant interests. He may desire merely to qualify to be a director. He may be a "pirate" and contenplate a particular suit which he can institute only as a shareholder. He may hope to acquire the right of a shareholder to examine the stock ledger or other books or records...