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Yoonsoo Nam
Researcher at Washington State University
Publications - 9
Citations - 42
Yoonsoo Nam is an academic researcher from Washington State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dividend & Profitability index. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 9 publications receiving 20 citations. Previous affiliations of Yoonsoo Nam include Gonzaga University.
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Corporate Governance and Financial Peer Effects
Douglas J. Fairhurst,Yoonsoo Nam +1 more
TL;DR: This article found that managers select financial policies partially by mimicking policies of peer firms, and that mimicking correlates to higher financing costs and lower future profitability, especially if it results in high leverage.
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Do cultures influence abnormal market reactions before official sovereign debt rating downgrade announcements
Keith Jakob,Yoonsoo Nam +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate whether cultural norms influence the way market information is incorporated into overall market prices and find that high masculinity and high individualism are significantly associated with less negative abnormal market reactions.
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The practice of and motivation for equity recycling: Evidence from the Asia-Pacific region
Douglas J. Fairhurst,Yoonsoo Nam +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors find evidence that equity recycling in the Asia-Pacific region is consistent with shareholders' interests and not a result of market timing by managers, and find that recycling is more prevalent in markets with greater financial development and during non-crisis time periods.
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Do corporate directors ‘heap’ dividends? Evidence on dividend rounding and information uncertainty in Australian firms:
TL;DR: This paper examined the extent of dividend heaping in Australian firms between 1976 and 2015 and found that 27.39% of dividends greater than or equal to 2.5-cents are heaped in 2.4-cent intervals, while 70.90% of less than 2-5cents were less than 0.25cent intervals.
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Heaping on Dividends: The Role of Dividend Size and Information Uncertainty
Keith Jakob,Yoonsoo Nam +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine whether a cognitive bias influences dividend policy and find that managers use a heaping heuristic when choosing the amount of their firm's dividend, which is a huma...