Why are dividends sticky?

This dissertation investigates the sluggish adjustment process of dividend payment in the stock market. First, I focus on the individual stocks. A casual investigation of observed dividends for individual stocks shows dividend adjustments are sluggish and discrete; this is not consistent with the Li...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tsai, Chun-Li
Other Authors: Jansen, Dennis W.
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: Texas A&M University 2005
Subjects:
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/2698