effects of dividend policy on corporate financial growth, is a major concern of most entities. whether dividends have an influence on the value of the firm, is an important question in dividend policy. this study aimed at investigating the effects of dividend policy on financial growth of media firms. the study was conducted in nairobi at the nation media group headquarters. respondents were se...

How do managers set financial policy? Most popular theories of financial policy are developed in terms of a marginal analysis for a new project available to the firm that is extraordinary in spirit. However, extraordinary investment observations have not been previously isolated for study. This paper uses a sample of firms making extraordinary investments to probe deeper into the driving forces...

Is there a pecking order of cross-border investment in that countries become financially integrated through some types of investment rather than others? Using a novel database of bilateral capital stocks for all types of investment – foreign direct investment (FDI), portfolio equity securities, debt securities as well as loans – for a broad set of 77 countries, we show that such a pecking order...

In a financial market with information, agency and contract enforcement problem, partially informed firms have difficulty to access in capital markets they face some restrictions get adequate external at similar cost of their internal funds. Hence, these display the preferential order financing choices, for example; first invest funds, second debt equity as last resort. However, such preference...