Purpose – The purpose of this research is to analyze survey results on the perception of dividends by managers of … corresponding managers' views on the determinants of dividends are similar. Canadian managers believe that dividend policy affects … dividend‐paying firms listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX). Design/methodology/approach – Managers from a sample of 291 …

Purpose – To study the perception of dividends by the professional investor, for whom mutual fund managers are a proxy … part of a segment of three different studies examining the perception of dividends by corporate managers, and across …. The main line of research in dividends is based on using market data that are fit, ex post, to a cherished hypothesis. It …

The question of why individual investors want dividends is investigated by submitting a questionnaire to a Dutch … consumer panel.The respondents indicate that they want dividends, partly because the transaction costs of cashing in dividends … finance theory of Shefrin and Statman (1984) is not confirmed for cash dividends but is confirmed for stock dividends …

Purpose – To study the perception of dividends by the professional investor, for whom mutual fund managers are a proxy … part of a segment of three different studies examining the perception of dividends by corporate managers, and across …. The main line of research in dividends is based on using market data that are fit, ex post , to a cherished hypothesis. It …

motivate high quality managers to retain and invest firm earnings, while low quality managers are motivated to distribute … executive compensation. These results hold when payout is defined as common dividends plus common share repurchases. Research …/value -Several recent papers have documented an association between dividends and executive compensation. This paper presents and …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine cash dividends and stock repurchases in Canada from 1988 to 2006 and … likelihood of paying dividends and the timing of repurchases and OLS regressions to examine the level of payout. Findings – The … dividends. Unlike US firms, Canadian repurchase-only firms do not become important payers in terms of either the percentage of …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine cash dividends and stock repurchases in Canada from 1988 to 2006 and … likelihood of paying dividends and the timing of repurchases and OLS regressions to examine the level of payout. Findings – The … dividends. Unlike US firms, Canadian repurchase‐only firms do not become important payers in terms of either the percentage of …