Maximizing Dividends without Bankruptcy

Maximizing without difficulty: A modified maximizing scale and its correlates

This article presents several studies that replicate and extend previous research on maximizing. A modified scale for measuring individual maximizing tendency is introduced. The scale has adequate psychometric properties and reflects maximizers’ aspirations for high standards and their preference for extensive alternative search, but not the decision difficulty aspect included in several previo...

Generating statistical distributions without maximizing the entropy

We show here how to use pieces of thermodynamics’ first law to generate probability distributions for generalized ensembles when only level-population changes are involved. Such microstate occupation modifications, if properly constrained via first law ingredients, can be associated not exclusively to heat and acquire a more general meaning. PACS: 2.50.-r, 3.67.-a, 05.30.-d

Maximizing the value of distressed assets: Bankruptcy law and the efficient reorganization of firms

We argue that the main role of corporate bankruptcy is to mitigate bargaining frictions in financial distress. Bankruptcy law can improve ex post bargaining efficiency by (1) verifying assets and liabilities; (2) improving coordination among claimholders; (3) protecting third-party claimants; (4) maintaining asset value during bargaining; and (5) alleviating the impact of liquidity constraints ...

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...