shareholders, including their further sale. Share repurchase is like dividend payout a form of transferring profit to shareholders …

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 attempts to understand the linkage of dividend decisions and investors’ perceptions within the context of … the Pakistani corporate sector. It is intended to proffer new evidence for designing dividend policies that satisfies … factors, patterns, processes and preferences for cash dividends. Results indicate that stability in the rate of dividend …

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 …

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 examines the impact of family control on the dividend policy of firms in Pakistan, covering the period from … 2009 to 2016. It also investigates whether family control moderates the impact of firm-specific factors on the dividend … dividends than nonfamily firms. Besides, firm size inversely affects the dividend policy, whereas tangibility positively affects …

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 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 …