We examine the association between ownership structure and dividend payout policy in a family firms dominated economy …. More specifically, we test whether family firms pay higher dividend compared to counter non-family firms in Bangladesh. We … argue that family firms are more likely to pay higher dividend to display lower agency problems between controlling family …

This paper applies Johansen's vector error-correction model (VECM) to investigate for the existence of the dividend … Granger-causality test. Our findings show that a unit shock increase in dividend payout leads to a permanent increase in … future earnings over time, thus supporting the existence of informational/signaling content in dividend payout in the …

firm which remains the relation with major customer in a longer period pays higher dividend. This finding is unbiased by … the substitutional effect between dividend and repurchase and robust in different model specifications. Digging deeper, I … find that the positive effect of relationship duration with major customer on supplier dividend payout is contributable to …

Investigating the impact of three types of state ownership on firms' dividend pay-out decisions for the first time …, this study focuses on the differences in dividend pay-out behavior among various state ultimate owners. It has been found … more likely to pay a dividend than the firms controlled by private ultimate owners. Central enterprises are no more likely …

structure, dividend policy, ownership structure and firm performance. We find that, to some extent, the types of shareholders … both capital structure and dividend policy significantly and positively influence firm value. The results of simultaneous … regressions also suggest that ownership structure impacts capital structure and dividend policy, which in turn affects firm value …