the stock market? We study in details different frequencies of dividend payment across time and find several results that …

Some mutual funds purchase stocks before dividend payments to artificially increase their dividends, which we call …

Dividend payments attenuate agency issues, but they can also be used by managers for management entrenchment. Using … open-ended mutual funds, we find that dividend yield (DY) is positively (negatively) related to a fund's post-dividend net …' irrational behavior of dividend chasing, thereby using dividends strategically to benefit managers at the expense of fund …

The current research aims to analyze the impact of institutional shareholding on the dividend payout policy of Islamic … positive impact on the dividend payout policy of Islamic mutual funds in both countries, which is in line with the assumption … dividend payments. In this way, these firms would be able to attract a large number of investors. …