in favor of agency considerations. Studies centered on the May 2003 dividend tax cut confirm that differences in the …

testing method, which does not rely on distributional assumptions to aggregate the information from the time series of price-dividend … ratios and dividend growth. We find evidence of return predictability, but no apparent evidence of dividend growth …

Economic literature suggests that banks change their dividend payouts for three main reasons. They may be willing to … to introduction of sector-wide recommendation by regulators to suspend dividend payouts in view of prevailing large …, over a decade and a half preceding the pandemic, bank dividend payouts were adjusted in line with the three motivations …