This study addresses the debate over the relation between institutional ownership and dividend payout through the lens … conditioning on firms' financial performance, they will use dividend payout to mitigate the firms' agency problems. We find the … ownership and dividend payout ratio; (2) the positive relation is more salient when the firm has high agency costs; and (3) 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 …

ambiguity on payout, we find that dividend initiation announcement returns increase in ambiguity …

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 …

The article discusses the relationship between dividend policy and the quality of corporate governance. On the one hand … explanations of mixed results. We find a set of factors that can affect the link between corporate governance quality and dividend …

-listing events, we find that firms reach a new equilibrium dividend policy after a shift in the level of shareholder protection and … the direction of the dividend adjustment depends on the pre-cross-listing locus of control. Exchange-traded cross …-listings can afford to decrease dividend payouts as they substitute dividends with better corporate governance. However, dividend …

investors, dividend payouts do not generally increase, mature firms do not pay higher dividends, but growing firms cut them down …

We investigate dividend smoothing behaviors of approximately 6,000 firms from 28 countries. The data find a wide … variation in the extent of dividend smoothing across countries, while US firms smooth dividends the most. Firms with a … concentrated ownership structure adjust their dividends quickly, especially when the target dividend level is lower than dividends …

profitability and earned/contributed capital mix on the decision to pay dividends and dividend payout are weaker for firms following … dividend payout and this effect does not vary between traditional and imputation tax systems. Firms with higher foreign … the imputation tax system upon dividend policy …