L
Laurence Booth
Researcher at University of Toronto
Publications - 59
Citations - 5211
Laurence Booth is an academic researcher from University of Toronto. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dividend & Dividend policy. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 57 publications receiving 4952 citations.
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Capital Structures in Developing Countries
TL;DR: This article analyzed the capital structure choices of firms in 10 developing countries and provided evidence that these decisions are affected by the same variables as in developed countries, indicating that specific country factors are at work.
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Capital Structure in Developing Countries
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a new date set to assess whether capital structure theory is portable across countries with different institutional framework, and they analyzed capital structure choices of firms in 10 developing countries and provided evidence that these decisions are affected by the same variables as in developed countries.
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Capital Structure in Developing Countries
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a new date set to assess whether capital structure theory is portable across countries with different institutional framework, and they analyzed capital structure choices of firms in 10 developing countries and provided evidence that these decisions are affected by the same variables as in developed countries.
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Do emerging market firms follow different dividend policies from u.s. firms
TL;DR: The authors found that emerging market firms exhibit dividend behavior similar to U.S. firms, in the sense that dividends are explained by profitability, debt, and the market-to-book ratio.
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Dividend Smoothing and Debt Ratings
TL;DR: This paper found that firms that regularly access public debt (bond) markets are more likely to pay a dividend and subsequently follow a dividend smoothing policy than firms that rely exclusively on private (bank) debt.