Purpose: The purpose of the study is to analyze motivation behind payment of cash dividend by the firms in India in presence of tax provision that discourages payment of dividend by imposing tax on firms at the time of distribution.Design/methodology/approach First, consistent with Jensen's...

Political connection of firms is an important issue not just for corporate governance of an individual firm but from macro economic standpoint for the governance of the society as a whole. In India information on political connectedness of a firm is heuristic in nature and proxied by newspapers...

This article evaluates the efficiency of existing dividend distribution tax in India from the perspective of investors’ preference pattern, as revealed in the market. It investigates the announcement effect of dividend in India in the presence of dividend distribution tax with specific...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to verify existence of political connection of firms in India. For this purpose the paper first presents a theoretical model and then tests empirically the movement of stock prices during two state elections in India. Design/methodology/approach – The...