This paper studies the aggregate and distributional implications of Markov-perfect tax-spending policy in a neoclassical growth model with capitalists and workers. Focusing on the long run, our main …ndings are: (i) it is optimal for a benevolent government, which cares equally about its citizens, to tax capital heavily and to subsidise labour; (ii) a Pareto improving means to reduce ine¢ cient...

We consider cooperative environments with externalities (games in partition function form) and provide a recursive definition of dividends for each coalition and any partition of the players it belongs to. We show that with this definition and equal sharing of these dividends the averaged sum of dividends for each player, over all the coalitions that contain the player, coincides with the corre...

We examine the interaction between capital structure and dividend initiation. Reasons often given for the positive abnormal return when firms initiate dividends are the signaling of asymmetric information and the reductions of agency costs. Theory also suggests that these are reasons for choosing debt in the capital structure. This study finds that the effect of initiating dividends is dampened...

3 ABSTRACT This paper investigates the dividend decisions of firms in the UK reporting losses after sustained periods of profitability. It is found that loss-making firms are more likely to reduce dividends compared to firms that remain profitable, although a loss is far from a guarantee that the dividend payment will be reduced. A lower propensity to reduce dividends is found in the UK relativ...

explaining dividend policy has been one of the most difficult challenges facing financial economists. despite decades of study, we have yet to completely understand the factors that influence dividend policy and the manner in which these factors interact.the aim of this paper is to examine the relation between dividend policy and share price volatility in tehran stock exchange (tse). the analys...

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A rm whose net earnings are uncertain, and that is subject to the risk of bankruptcy, must choose between paying dividends and retaining earnings in a liquid reserve. Also, diierent operating strategies imply diierent combinations of expected return and variance. We model the rm's cash reserve as the diierence between the cumulative net earnings and the cumulative dividends. The rst is a diiusi...