Creditors and dividend policy: Reputation building versus debt covenant

Agency problem between shareholders and creditors can be reduced by two mechanisms namely reputation-building and debt covenant. Prior studies document supporting evidence for both hypotheses with a positive relationship between creditor rights and dividend policy. However, they fail to test reputat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Quoc Trung Tran
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Elsevier 2019-09-01
Series:European Research on Management and Business Economics
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2444883419300348