Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a strategic tool that firms use to gain competitive
advantage and enhance profitability in the long run, yet its effect on dividend payout in …

We distill evidence about the effects of COVID-19 on companies. Stock price reactions to the
shock differed greatly across firms, depending on their resilience to social distancing …

This paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the adjustments of dividends
and share repurchases of publicly listed firms in the G-7 countries. Firms in the United …

We explore the reasons behind corporate dividend changes and factors driving those
changes during 2001–2021 in Oman, as a unique environment. The implications of our …

Financial markets during the COVID-19 pandemic are characterized by a prolonged period
of increased uncertainty. In this paper, we analyse how the announcements of policy …

Corporate bond markets proved remarkably resilient against a sharp contraction caused by
the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. We document three important findings:(1) bond issuance …

This article assesses the effects of economic uncertainty on the corporate capital structure of
Chinese-listed firms using a panel dataset of 1138 firms with A-shares traded on the …

Big data on job postings reveal multiple facets of the impact of COVID-19 on corporate
hiring. Firms disproportionately cut new hiring for high-skill positions, with financially …

The main aim of this paper is to verify whether companies that received special state aid as
part of anti-crisis help to mitigate the negative effects of the coronavirus pandemic decided to …

We examine the impact of COVID‐19 on US corporate cash holdings. Our findings suggest
that greater pandemic exposure is associated with higher corporate cash holdings and that …