Purpose This study aims to explore the impact of capital structure (CS), including total debts,
short-term debt, long-term debt and total shareholder equity, on environmental, social and …

Non-financial companies listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange face considerable
difficulties due to expensive funding and the need to make complex decisions about their …

This literature review aims to address the critical knowledge gap in the field of share
repurchase executions, a financial activity involving companies repurchasing trillions of …

We explore the reasons behind corporate dividend changes and factors driving those
changes during 2001–2021 in Oman, as a unique environment. The implications of our …

Using Using a hand-collected dataset, we study whether CEO political ideology affected
S&P 500 firms' reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. During the pandemic, CEOs …

This study explores the relationship between ESG reputational risk, corporate payouts and
firm value. Using a sample of 2021 US‐listed firms between 2007 and 2019, we provide …

In present dynamic environment, financial flexibility has become an important constituent of
corporate finance decisions. Financial flexible firms are ostensibly more resilient to …

Share repurchases have become a significant global transaction and skepticism persists
about their ambiguous effect on investment. We enter this debate motivated by inconclusive …

The prior literature indicates that financial policy (eg, payout policy) as well as accounting
policy (eg, conservatism) can be used to address incentive problems in firms but finds mixed …

Economic fallouts from COVID-19 have been unprecedented across all industries, with a
handful of exceptions. The present study attempts to capture the impact of dividend …