. True / False Questions: 10. According to the MM dividend-irrelevance proposition, since investors do not need dividend

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. True / False Questions:
10. According to the MM dividend-irrelevance proposition, since investors do not
need dividends to convert their shares to cash, they will not pay higher prices for
firms with higher dividend payouts.
11. U.S. corporations are likely to prefer external capital over dividends on their own
investments.
12. The "information content of dividends" says that dividend increases send good
news about cash flow and earnings, while dividend cuts send bad news.
13. Loan covenants can ensure that companies will accept all positive-NPV
investments and reject negative ones.
14. MM's proposition I states that the required rate of return on equity increases as the
firm's debt-equity ratio increases.
15. Under MM II assumptions, the expected return on equity is equal to the expected
return on assets for a levered firm.
16. The "trade-off theory" of capital structure suggests that firms have an optimal
level of debt.
17. When there are no taxes and capital markets function well, the market value of a
company depends on its capital structure. .
18. The pecking order theory of capital structure depicts that firms prefer external
financing to sending out signals that may affect the stock price.
19. Debt financing affects neither the business risk nor the financial risk of the firm.
20. The riskiness of equity securities typically exceeds that of debt securities for
firms.