-owned enterprises (listed CSOEs) controlled by these parent CSOEs experience a significant reduction in dividend payouts. The reduction … in dividend payouts is concurrent with an increase in intra-group capital flows: listed CSOEs' loans to group peers and …

We find that minority shareholders’ voting opposition to dividend proposals is associated with significantly higher … cash dividend payout in the following year for stocks listed in Shanghai Stock Exchange. When minority shareholders’ voting … dividend payout. Minority shareholders’ voting opposition has a stronger positive effect on cash dividend payout when they post …

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 …

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 …

Departing from the traditional cash flow rights-dividend policy framework, this study investigates whether the level of … their cash dividend policy. We find that the level of control rights is positively associated with both the propensity to … pay and the level of cash dividend payout, which indicates that the ultimate controlling shareholders are likely to use …

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. In line with the … agency model, we find a negative relation between family control and dividend payouts at low and high levels of control. We …

minority shareholders extract dividend from the firms as an outcome of legal protection in a manner that mitigates problem of … expropriation by corporate insiders . Consequentially the firms follow a stable dividend policy catering to the needs of the … investors with a favourable valuation implication. Overall our study highlights that the dividend policy of Singapore firms …

Using data on listed banks in 51 countries, we analyze whether banks' dividend payouts are influenced by the relative … strengths of the agency conflicts faced by their shareholders and creditors. We show that dividend policy depends on the …