This paper examines the stock dividend ex-day effect on the Muscat Securities Market (MSM), which is of interest because several of the market microstructure explanations for the ex-day effect can be ruled out. We find that there are positive abnormal returns on Omani stock dividend ex-days. We...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the stability of dividend policy using a unique data set. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on the Lintner model that is used to test the dividend smoothing behavior. The specific econometric method used for panel data is Tobit regression....

We investigate shareholder wealth effects of stock dividends using a unique dataset from Oman in which many market frictions that are used to explain the stock dividend announcement effect are either absent or limited. We find a positive stock market reaction to stock dividend distributions. We...

We analyze the connectedness between major cryptocurrencies and nonfungible tokens (NFTs) for diferent quantiles employing a time-varying parameter vector autoregression approach. We fnd that lower and upper quantile spillovers are higher than those at the median, meaning that connectedness...