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Stock market reactions to dividend announcements: Empirical evidence from the Austrian stock market

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  1. Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland

    Henryk Gurgul

  2. Institute of Banking and Finance, University of Graz, Austria

    Roland Mestel

  3. Monetary Instruments and Markets Division, Bank of England, London, UK

    Christoph Schleicher

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Gurgul, H., Mestel, R. & Schleicher, C. Stock market reactions to dividend announcements: Empirical evidence from the Austrian stock market. Fin Mkts Portfolio Mgmt 17, 332–350 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11408-003-0304-1

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