Investment, Financing, Dividend, and Production Policies: Review and Integration

The main purposes of this paper are (i) to review investment, financing, dividend, and production policies in some detail; (ii) to discuss how these four policies are interrelated and integrate these four policies into a composite policy; (iii) to discuss the impacts of financing, dividend, and production policies on the beta coefficient; and (iv) to develop hypotheses to be used for empirical studies on the interaction among financing, dividend, and production policies. A theoretical relationship between beta coefficient and financing, dividend, and production policies is developed. This paper gives an overall view of the four policies used in finance education and research for the last five decades.