tax rates on individual dividend income from zero to 28 percent. We document strong timing effects on dividend payout on a … corporations' debt-equity ratios. The debt ratios drop sharply after the implementation of the reform. -- Neutral dividend tax …

The paper attempts to study the insufficiency of corporate dividend payout in China from the perspective of financial …

In this paper, we compare the equity returns of dividend-paying and non-dividend paying firms. We find no unconditional … return difference even though non-dividend paying firms have many characteristics that suggest high risk. Equivalently …, because non-dividend paying firms have high risk-metrics, their returns are abnormally low compared with dividend-paying firms …

tax rates on individual dividend income from zero to 28 percent. We document strong timing effects on dividend payout on a …

There are various factors that influence dividend payout policy of corporations; investment opportunity set and … dividend payout policy of Malaysian industrial products sector is investigated. The sample consists of 62 companies which were … listed on the main board of Bursa Malaysia. The dependent variable is dividend payout which is measured by dividing dividend …

We use a survey approach to investigate how managers in a frontier market apply financing and dividend decision … debt when the firm’s internal funds are inadequate. Under dividend policy, the most treasured technique is ensuring cash …

firm manages the issues of the agency problem and external financing constraints by omitting or initiating dividend … payments. Therefore, this study investigated the impact of corporate governance on dividend policies in the presence of …, the availability of external financing is an important factor related to dividend payment decisions in Pakistan. When a …