dividend yield and dividend initiations for a large sample of U.S. firms. Firms located in counties with higher proportions of … Protestants are more likely to be dividend payers and have higher dividend yields whereas firms located in counties with higher … proportions of Catholics are less likely to be dividend payers and have lower dividend yields. Firms from Protestant areas are …

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 …

The article analyses inter-dependencies between dividend, capital structure, and cost of capital, factoring the … concentrated ownership. Dividend, leverage, and average cost of capital are inter-linked. However, family firms pay lower dividends …

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 …

few families. These business groups are often organised around a holding company. We analyse the dividend payouts of … the effects of several control-enhancing mechanisms (CEMs) on dividend payouts. We use precise quantitative proxies for … business group companies have lower dividend payouts as the divergence between control and ownership rights widens and the …

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 …