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Impact of financial and multinational operations on manager perceptions of dividends
No full textWe survey managers of firms listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange about their views on
dividends. We find the perceptions of factors that influence dividend policy differ between
managers of financial and non-financial firms. Industry classification also affects how managers
view statements about the dividend pattern, dividend setting process, dividend policy and firm
value, residual dividend theory, and explanations for paying dividends. However, we find weak,
if any, multinational operations effect on manager perception of dividends. We conclude that
researchers investigating dividends should partition the data by industry type and perhaps other
firm characteristics to better understand the dividend puzzle
Class consciousness pays: Characteristics of index funds with diverse expense ratios
No full textThis paper investigates the characteristics of 189 retail index mutual funds that track
eight primary benchmarks across diverse expense ratio classes. These performance measures
and attributes are the Sharpe ratio, Jensen’s alpha, annualized total return, Morningstar rating,
portfolio turnover, load and 12b-1 fees, fund size, age, and manager tenure. In general, our
results support the notion that retail index funds with low expense ratios outperform those with
excessive expense ratios. In addition, expense ratios tend to decrease as turnover, loads, and
12b-1 fees decline and as fund size and age increase. Experienced managers do not
necessarily run these low-cost funds. Instead, higher-cost funds have managers with a longer
tenure at the fund
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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