Journal article
Financial Flexibility, Performance, and the Corporate Payout Choice
The Journal of business (Chicago, Ill.), Vol.78(6), pp.2179-2202
11/01/2005
DOI: 10.1086/497043
Abstract
This study examines the effect of financial flexibility and the level and certainty of operating performance on the choice to change dividends, pay special dividends, and repurchase shares. Firms that increase payouts have excess financial flexibility and exhibit positive concurrent income shocks and decreases in income volatility, but there is limited evidence of subsequent performance improvements. The results are opposite for firms that cut dividends. Thus, the decision to alter payout levels appears to convey information about contemporaneous income and changes in operating risk.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Financial Flexibility, Performance, and the Corporate Payout Choice
- Creators
- Erik Lie
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Journal of business (Chicago, Ill.), Vol.78(6), pp.2179-2202
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- DOI
- 10.1086/497043
- ISSN
- 0021-9398
- eISSN
- 1537-5374
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/01/2005
- Academic Unit
- Finance
- Record Identifier
- 9984380451802771
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