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Three Essays On Banking, Capital Market Frictions And Corporate Payout Policy, Hosein Nooriaan Jan 2017

Three Essays On Banking, Capital Market Frictions And Corporate Payout Policy, Hosein Nooriaan

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The prevalence of financial market frictions is far from uncommon. Between 1970 and 2011, Laeven & Valencia (2012) identify 147 banking crises, along with 218 episodes of currency crises, and 66 episodes of sovereign debt default. Thus, understanding a firm’s behavior in the presence of financial crisis is an important issue for future financial research. My dissertation explores corporate payout and liquidity policy either during a financial market crisis, or in anticipation of a financial market crisis.

In the first essay, “Capital Market Friction and Corporate Payout Policy”, I focus on the role of supply of capital on corporate payout …