This study shows that firms regard stock price fragility - exposure to non-fundamental demand shocks stemming from the composition of equity ownership - as a salient corporate risk. We model ex-ante corporate responses to higher potential for future stock market misvaluation and then empirically...

Bangladesh stock markets experienced an unsustainable bubble and burst in December 2010. Since then the markets observed a falling turnover and a depressed phase of pricing. Millions of small savers lost their savings and the issue became a public policy debacle for the then government. A...

The dividend signaling hypothesis means that dividend change announcements send signals to the market about its prospects. Market capitalization anomaly or size effect means small-cap stocks variances and returns are different than the large-cap stocks. The sample was tested for dividend change...

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between dividend policy and share price volatility with a focus on consumer product companies listed in Malaysian stock market. For this purpose, a sample of 84 companies from 142 consumer product companies listed in main market of Bursa...

There are two types of stock dividend in the Chinese stock market. This paper examines them in the period of 1997-2008. Empirical findings indicate that the stock dividend effect appears twice. The average abnormal return is 0.88% on the stock dividend proposal date and 0.35% on the stock...

There are two types of stock dividend in the Chinese stock market. This paper examines them in the period of 1997-2008. Empirical findings indicate that the stock dividend effect appears twice. The average abnormal return is 0.88% on the stock dividend proposal date and 0.35% on the stock...

We evaluate motives for share repurchases using a unified framework where a firm has a target capital structure and has equity that can be mispriced. We document that capital structure adjustments are a value-increasing motive for repurchases and that the extent to which adjusting capital...

The intention of this paper is to examine the relationship between the dividend policy and share prices of companies on the Macedonian Stock Exchange in order to define whether the dividend policy is a factor determining the share price volatility, and if so, how to use this possibility to...

Numerous studies analyze the impact of ownership concentration and shareholder identity on dividend payout probabilities. In this paper, we seek to provide additional information about the importance different ownership proxies have for dividend payments. Because the importance of those proxies...

We examine three aspects of the relation between dividend initiation and increase announcements and idiosyncratic volatility. First, consistent with dividend signaling, we find that firms with higher levels of idiosyncratic volatility are associated with higher announcement abnormal returns when...