This study compares firms' dividend policy antecedents in four countries. The author surveys managers of 230 companies … from the USA, Canada, and Norway. The main antecedents of dividend policy in these countries are the level of current … little importance for Polish managers, as the history of dividend payouts in Polish-listed companies is brief. The …

This study analyzes the firm-specific factors affecting the dividend payout decisions of the companies whose shares are …-Bover/Blunder-Bond two-step system generalized method of moments, a statistically significant positive effect on dividend payout was found in … the relationship between the dividend payout of the previous year, the company's return on equity and the market value …

This paper attempts to understand the linkage of dividend decisions and investors’ perceptions within the context of … the Pakistani corporate sector. It is intended to proffer new evidence for designing dividend policies that satisfies … factors, patterns, processes and preferences for cash dividends. Results indicate that stability in the rate of dividend …

Within the sphere of financial management for Nigerian Deposit Money Banks (DMBs), the dividend payout ratio stands as …, macroeconomic influences, and mergers and acquisitions on the dividend payout ratio of five selected DMBs. Secondary data collected …, and bank size were positively associated with dividend payout ratio except leverage, which negatively affected dividend …

calculations were carried out using the methodology of taxonomic measure of investment attractiveness, as well as dividend premium …

We examine stock prices and the number of stocks traded around ex-dividend dates of German stocks with tax …-free dividend. Tax-free dividends are temporarily tax-exempt, as they reduce the initial purchasing price of a stock. With our … empirical results indicate that ex-date prices decline, on average, by the amount of the dividend. We do not find a significant …