@incollection{,
	
					
					
					024A4C082C1CE65F5FE733E880E3E924
				,
	author={{Prof.T.Velnampy} and {Mr.P.Nimalthasan} and {Miss.K.Kalaiarasi} and {University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka}},
	journal={{Global Journal of Management and Business Research}},
	journal={{GJMBR}}2249-45880975-585310.34257/GJMBR,
	address={Cambridge, United States},
	publisher={Global Journals Organisation}1466367
}

@incollection{b0,
	
	
		,
	title={{The Dividend puzzle}}
		,
	author={{
			FBlack
		}}
	
	
		,
	journal={{The Journal of Portfolio Management}}
		
			2
			
			,
	year={1976}
		
	

}

@incollection{b1,
	
	
		,
	title={{Firm Performance and Dividend-Related Factors: The Case of Malaysia}}
		,
	author={{
			SSFoong
		} and {
			NBZakaria
		} and {
			HBTan
		}}
		
		
	
	
		,
	journal={{Labuan Bulletin of International Business & Finance}}
		
			5
			
			,
	year={2007}
		
	

}

@incollection{b2,
	
	
		,
	title={{The Determinants of Dividend Policy in Pakistan}}
		,
	author={{
			AHafeez
		} and {
			YJAttiya
		}}
		
	
	
		,
	journal={{International Research Journal of Finance Economics}}
		
			25
			
			,
	year={2009}
		
	

}

@incollection{b3,
	
	
		,
	title={{Capital Structure and its impact on Firm Performance: A Study on Sri Lankan Listed Manufacturing Companies}}
		,
	author={{
			RKajananthan
		} and {
			PNimalthasan
		}}
		
	
	
		,
	journal={{Journal of Business and Management}}
		
			1
			2
			,
	year={2013}
		
	

}

@incollection{b4,
	
	
		,
	title={{Corporate Governance Practices and Its Impact on Firm Performance: Special Reference to Listed Banking Institutions in Sri Lanka}}
		,
	author={{
			RKajananthan
		}}
	
	
		,
	journal={{Global Journal of Management and Business Research}}
		
			21
			12
			,
	year={2012}
		
	

}

@incollection{b5,
	
	
		,
	title={{Dividends, uncertainty and underwriting costs under asymmetric information}}
		,
	author={{
			JRKale
		} and {
			HNThomas
		}}
		
	
	
		,
	journal={{The Journal of Financial Research}}
		
			13
			
			,
	year={1990}
		
	

}

@incollection{b6,
	
	
		,
	title={{Dividend initiations and Earnings surprises}}
		,
	author={{
			MLipson
		} and {
			CPMaquieira
		} and {
			WMegginson
		}}
		
		
	
	
		,
	journal={{Financial Management}}
		
			24
			
			,
	year={1998}
		
	

}

@incollection{b7,
	
	
		,
	title={{Dividend Policy, Growth, and the Valuation of Shares}}
		,
	author={{
			MHMiller
		} and {
			FModigliani
		}}
		
	
	
		,
	journal={{Journal of Business}}
		
			34
			
			,
	year={1961}
		
	

}

@incollection{b8,
	
	
		,
	title={{Dividend changes and future profitability}}
		,
	author={{
			DNissim
		} and {
			DZiv
		}}
		
	
	
		,
	journal={{Journal of Finance}}
		
			56
			6
			
			,
	year={2001}
		
	

}

@book{b9,
	
	
		,
	title={{Does Corporate Governance Affect Dividend Policy? Evidence from Poland}}
		,
	author={{
			KOskar
		} and {
			SIvan
		} and {
			Oleksandr
		} and {
			BDiw
		}}
		
		
		
		
			,
	year={2007. July, 2007}
		
	

}

@incollection{b10,
	
	
		,
	title={{The interactions between the investment, financing, and dividend decisions of major US firms}}
		,
	author={{
			SWPruitt
		} and {
			LWGitman
		}}
		
	
	
		,
	journal={{Financial Review}}
		
			26
			33
			
			,
	year={1991}
		
	

}

@book{b11,
	
	
		,
	author={{
			SARoss
		} and {
			RWWesterfield
		} and {
			JJaffe
		}}
		
		
		,
	title={{Corporate Finance}}
				
			,
	publisher={McGraw-Hill Companies}
			,
	year={2002}
		
	
	,
	note={6th ed.}

}

@incollection{b12,
	
	
		,
	title={{Dividend Policy and Bank Performance in Ghana}}
		,
	author={{
			KASamuel
		} and {
			MYEdward
		}}
		
	
	
		,
	journal={{International Journal of Economics and Finance}}
		
			3
			,
	year={2011}
		
	

}

@incollection{b13,
	
	
		,
	title={{Corporate Governance Practices, Capital Structure and Their Impact on Firm Performance: A Study on Sri Lankan Listed Manufacturing Companies}}
		,
	author={{
			TVelnampy
		} and {
			PNimalthasan
		}}
		
	
	
		,
	journal={{Journal of Finance and Accounting}}
		
			18
			
			,
	year={2013}
		
	

}

@incollection{b14,
	
	
		,
	title={{Corporate Governance and Firm Performance: A Study of Sri Lankan Manufacturing Companies}}
		,
	author={{
			TVelnampy
		}}
	
	
		,
	journal={{Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development}}
		
			4
			3
			
			,
	year={2013}
		
	

}

@incollection{b15,
	
	
		,
	title={{Firm size on profitability}}
		,
	author={{
			TVelnampy
		}}
	
	
		,
	booktitle={{Global journal of management and business research}}
				
			,
	year={2010}
			10
		
	

}

@incollection{b16,
	
	
		,
	title={{Firm size on profitability}}
		,
	author={{
			TVelnampy
		} and {
			BNimalathasan
		}}
		
	
	
		,
	booktitle={{Global journal of management and business research}}
				
			,
	year={2010}
			10
		
	

}

@incollection{b17,
	
	
		,
	title={{Corporate Governance Practices and Liquidity Management: Special Reference of Selected Manufacturing Companies Listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange}}
		,
	author={{
			TVelnampy
		} and {
			PNimalthasan
		} and {
			KKalaiarasi
		}}
		
		
	
	
		,
	journal={{International Conference on Contemporary Managaement}}
		
			1
			
			,
	year={2014}
		
	

}

@incollection{b18,
	
	
		,
	title={{Are large shareholders effective monitors? An investigation of share ownership and corporate performance}}
		,
	author={{
			RJZeckhouser
		} and {
			JPound
		}}
		
	
	
		,
	booktitle={{Asymmetric information, corporate finance and investment}}
				,
	editor={
			RGHubbard
		}
		Chicago
		
			,
	publisher={The University of Chicago Press}
			,
	year={1990}
		
	

}