The study investigates the factors that influence dividend payout policy in public manufacturing Pakistani companies … a dividend at all or regularly so all these firms or not paying observations were excluded from the final dataset. The … study discovers that dividend payout in listed manufacturing Pakistani firms is significantly affected by “ratio of short …

tax cuts in an economy with heterogeneous households and a representative, mature firm. Dividend tax cuts, contrary to …

effects considered in signaling games. We show that paying out free cash flow, either as a dividend or via repurchasing shares … dividend as long as capital gains are not heavily discriminated by taxation in relation to dividends. The positive price effect … of dividends can be enhanced if the firm implements a dividend reinvestment plan (DRIP). …