We investigate the association between dividend policy and government shareholding, using Malaysian data. We … hypothesize a positive association. We contribute to the literature about dividend policy. Unique features of our study include … adaptations to the Malaysian institutional setting, with respect to usage of dividend relevance theory, research methodology, and …

dividends on asset expropriation of the controlling shareholders in Chinese listed firms. Investors value more the cash … hypothesis better explains firms' dividend policy. Investors value more the cash dividends of firms with fewer investment …

shareholders, including their further sale. Share repurchase is like dividend payout a form of transferring profit to shareholders … adjusted Polish legal solutions to those valid in developed capital markets. -- payout policy ; share repurchase ; dividend …

In this paper, we investigate if dividend policy is influenced by ownership type. Within the dividend literature … expect firms with foreign ownership and those that are listed in overseas markets to have different dividend policies and … these effects exist in corporate dividend policy and practice. We find that both foreign ownership and cross-listing have …

The article analyses the impact of foreign investors, who were the majority shareholders of companies on the Warsaw … Stock Exchange, on dividend policy of these companies in the years 2004-2014. An evaluation of the direction and strength of … – dividend payout policy based on the binary logit model - showed that along with a growing share of a foreign investor in a …

The study aims to evaluate the impact of board traits on the organizations' dividend pay-outratio. For the purpose … statistically significant effect on the dividend pay-outratio. On the same theme, board skills development has significant but … negative effect on the dividend pay-outratio. Nonetheless, the board gender diversity has a positive and insignificant effect …

not retain earnings to promote their own interests. The relationship between board independence and dividend distributions …-developed corporate governance framework to listed companies. Design/methodology/approach: Data on the considered companies' dividend …: Although board independence was not significantly related to dividend distributions for the sampled companies, INEDs still …

few families. These business groups are often organised around a holding company. We analyse the dividend payouts of … the effects of several control-enhancing mechanisms (CEMs) on dividend payouts. We use precise quantitative proxies for … business group companies have lower dividend payouts as the divergence between control and ownership rights widens and the …