Dividend policy is still a largely discussed issue in corporate finance literature. One of the main indicators used in … analysing the dividend policy is the dividend payout ratio. Using a database consisting of 12,085 companies operating in 73 … countries, for the period 2008−2014, the authors found that the dividend payout ratio follows a Tweedie distribution, and not a …

Dividend policy is still a largely discussed issue in corporate finance literature. One of the main indicators used in … analysing the dividend policy is the dividend payout ratio. Using a database consisting of 12,085 companies operating in 73 … countries, for the period 2008–2014, the authors found that the dividend payout ratio follows a Tweedie distribution, and not a …

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 …

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 …

This paper is motivated from previous work in the area of bank interest rate and dividend policy, and we went further … to figure out whether there is any association between interest rate changes and the stock market's reaction to dividend … savings interest rate and dividend increase stock market react positively and our result show that stock market react …