What Would Prompt a Firm Like GE to Start Paying

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Essay

What would prompt a firm like GE to start paying out a much higher percentage of its earnings as dividends?

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Definitions:

Fixed Exchange Rate

A government policy to maintain the value of its currency at a set rate against another currency or a basket of currencies.

Covariance

A measure used in statistics to determine how much two random variables change together, indicating the direction of their linear relationship.

DAX Stock Market

The Deutscher Aktienindex (DAX), a major stock market index consisting of the 30 major German companies trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

Euro Bills

Short-term debt instruments issued by the European Central Bank and denominated in Euros.