Hard Times or Great Expectations?: Dividend omissions and dividend cuts by UK firms
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Hard Times or Great Expectations
This paper uncovers an increasing proportion of quoted UK companies omitting cash dividends. Using a large panel of quoted UK companies, we estimate models for the incidence of dividend omissions and cuts as functions of financial characteristics including cash flow, leverage, investment opportunities, investment and company size. These variables account for most of the increase in omission sin...
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