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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"signaling hypothesis"”.
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Reexamine the impact of security offering decisions on equity returns: The multivariate signaling hypothesis
… reexamines the validity of the informational signaling hypothesis with the security offering announcements of companies. Market, company and offering data are used to test this hypothesis directly by examining the immediate and permanent announcement effects on stock price. For the offering …
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What insight do market participants gain from dividend increases?
… Uniquely, this study simultaneously tests the signaling and agency abatement motivations as explanations of the impact of dividend increases on stock prices and bid-ask spreads. The agency abatement hypothesis argues that increased dividends constrict management's future behavior, abating the …
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Two Essays on Financial Economics
… three presents the paper entitled ""Dividend Signaling: Fact or Fiction?"". It tests dividend signaling hypothesis using U.S. stock market data. The paper re-explores the ""Bang-for-the-buck"" prediction of dividend signaling hypotheses, first identified by Bernheim and Wantz (1995), that the …
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Investigations of delayed plumage maturation in the orchard oriole
… test predictions of alternative breeding season signaling hypotheses for DPM. I found that, contrary to the results of several previous studies, subadult plumage in the orchard oriole does not reduce intra-sexual aggression directed toward subadults during the breeding season. I attribute these …
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Essays on entrepreneurship and education
… entrepreneurs and regular employees. If the signaling model of education is correct, entrepreneurs should receive lower returns from education (relative to employees) because they have no need to signal their productivity to an employer. However, this result should only hold if the researcher …