This paper investigates the effect of corporate risk management on dividend policy. We extend the signaling framework … level, the lower the incremental dividend. This result is in line with the purported positive relation between information … asymmetry and dividend policy (e.g., Miller and Rock, 1985) and the assertion that risk management alleviates the information …

-Miller irrelevance theorem. This paper combines dividend signalling theories and the Diamond-Dybvig bank run model. An opaque bank must … signal its solvency by paying high and stable dividends in order to keep depositors tranquil. This signalling may require … costly liquidations if the return on assets has been poor, but not paying the dividend might cause panic and trigger a run on …

dividend and earning. It means that dividend has information content about return and earning and so, signaling theory was …, signaling theory was not approved. In addition to, there was a significantly positive relationship between dividend and size. It … indicates that larger firms pay more dividends. -- dividend policy ; signaling theory ; corporate operating characteristics …

-prepared dividend cutters and test the implications of two alternative theories: the “signaling through market preparation” theory and …-prepared dividend cutters. Overall, our empirical results are consistent with the signaling theory … information (“prepare the market”) in advance of a possible dividend cut, and the consequences of such market preparation. We use …

good news at low levels of leverage, dividends become a bad signal when leverage is high. Quantitatively, a dividend …

This paper finds that dividend signaling hypothesis is able to explain the phenomenon of assets concentration in short … and medium investments in Islamic Interest-Free banking (IIFBs). In this paper a dividend signaling model framework has … been introduced, where in the process of maintaining a stable dividend, mangers of Islamic Interest-Free banking (IIFBs …

We outline a dividend signaling approach in which rational managers signal firm strength to investors who are loss … of the same level next period. The model is consistent with several features of the data, including equilibrium dividend … policies similar to a Lintner partial-adjustment model; modal dividend changes of zero; stronger market reactions to dividend …

driven by dividend smoothing. Thus, the empirical tests of dividend signaling theory might be misspecified …This paper uses a dynamic partial equilibrium model to explain a puzzle of dividend smoothing. In contrast to the … Modigliani-Miller theory, I show that firm value depends on payout policy. The analysis implies that firms with more stable …