Agency Problems and Dividend Policies around the World

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• Publication year

  1998

• Venue

  Social Science Research Network

• Publication date

  1998-08-01

• Fields of study

  Business, Economics

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  DOI 10.2139/SSRN.52871
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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