Indian corporate firms over the period 1994-2000. We explain the differences in the dividend payout behavior of the firms … with the help of firm’s financial structure, investments opportunities, dividend history, earnings trend, and the ownership …

winning majority support of shareholders influences the relation between a blockholder's monitoring incentive and a firm …'s dividend policy. When dividend-averse individuals collectively hold a majority stake in a dispersed ownership structure, a … dividend-seeking blockholder might be compelled to propose lower dividends than the tax-optimum to dominate the zero-dividend …

Indian corporate firms over the period 1994–2000. We explain the differences in the dividend payout behaviour of the firms … with the help of firms' financial structure, investment opportunities, dividend history, earnings trend and the ownership … its squares. We find no evidence in favour of an association between foreign ownership and dividend payout growth. …

that, in the UK, firms do not demonstrate a decreasing propensity to distribute funds to shareholders.The role of share … shareholders. …

firm models allows for a study of two types of agency conflicts, the one between shareholders and the manager (type I), and … the one between majority and minority shareholders (type II). Our results show that payout policies are related to the …

This research aims to test dividend signaling theory in an Indonesian capital market. Signaling theory states that … dividend policy has information content that can influence to share price. Examination of theory of signaling is related to … research phenomena in other countries indicating that by percentage there is degradation of company which is pay dividend and …

This paper studies the impact of the concentration of control, the type of controlling shareholder and the dividend tax … preference of the controlling shareholder on dividend policy for a panel of 220 German firms over 1984-2005. While the … concentration of control does not have an effect on the dividend payout, there is strong evidence that the type of controlling …

Using cross-sectional analysis of corporate dividend policy we show that large shareholders extract rents from firms … and expropriate minority shareholders in the weak corporate governance environment of an emerging economy. By comparing …