What Modigliani and Miller said, if it's pure dividend policy, then it is totally irrelevant; it means nothing, so companies can do whatever they please-- I don't care.

莫迪利阿尼和米勒的观点是,如果是单纯的股利政策,则与之完全不相关,它没有意义,所以公司可以任意施为,我不在乎

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So, that's the basic insight in Modigliani and Miller, that share repurchase and dividend are really interchangeable; it's just all a conceptual difference.

这即是莫迪利阿尼和米勒命题的内涵,股票回购和分红彼此是可替代的,只是概念上有所不同

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There's another Modigliani-Miller theorem about debt, which is about debt irrelevance as well.

关于负债还有另外一个MM定律,也是讲负债不相关性的

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