Emerging Research Fronts Comments by Eugene F. Fama

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ESI Special Topics, August 2003
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Eugene F. Fama answers a few questions about this month's emerging research front in field of Economics & Business:

Economics & Business
Article: "Disappearing dividends: changing firm characteristics or lower propensity to pay?"
Authors: Fama, EF;French, KR
Journal: J FINAN ECON, 60: (1) 3-43, APR 2001
Addresses:
MIT, Sloan Sch Management, Cambridge, MA 02142 USA.
MIT, Sloan Sch Management, Cambridge, MA 02142 USA.
Univ Chicago, Grad Sch Business, Chicago, IL 60637 USA.

  Why do you think your paper is highly cited?

The topic is interesting to a wide audience.

  Does it describe a new discovery or new methodology that's useful to others?

The empirical evidence is new.

  How did you become involved in this research?

It's part of a long-term research project concerned with how firms finance themselves.

Eugene F. Fama
Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance
University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business
Chicago, IL, USA

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ESI Special Topics, August 2003
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