At the onset of the Covid-19 outbreak, central banks and supervisors introduced dividend restrictions as a new policy … estimate the impact of the ECB’s dividend recommendation on bank lending and risk-taking. To address identification issues, we … fiscal policies that supported credit during the Covid-19 downturn and investigates their interaction with the dividend …

between the price dividend ratio, expected stock returns and expected dividend growth in the US since 1880. We find a … significant increase in the long-run equilibrium value of the price dividend ratio over time, associated with a fall in the long …

effects of a novel macroprudential policy rule - that I shall call Dividend Prudential Target (DPT) - aimed at complementing …

highlights the impor-tance of managing perceptions about dividend uncertainty through credible communication about the expected … duration, frequency and severity of dividend restrictions to limit their unintended side effects …

Economic literature suggests that banks change their dividend payouts for three main reasons. They may be willing to … to introduction of sector-wide recommendation by regulators to suspend dividend payouts in view of prevailing large …, over a decade and a half preceding the pandemic, bank dividend payouts were adjusted in line with the three motivations …

insolvency regimes do not unduly inhibit corporate restructuring. Thus, leveraging the important complementarities between bank … strengthening efforts and insolvency regime reform would contribute to breaking the shackles on potential growth in Europe …