We study the importance of investor rights in payout policy determination in Asia, using a sample of up to 52,778 firm years. The listed Asian firms located in relatively high investor protection, common law countries, have a greater tendency to pay out and, if they do so, they tend to pay out...

Tax codes regularly create conflicts of interests between small and large shareholders with respect to the payout decision of firms. We use this fact to study (i) whether firm behavior reflects preferences of blockholders and (ii) the effectiveness of minority shareholder protection on...

This paper investigates the effect of liquidity on the ex-dividend day price premium. It is well documented that prices drop less than the dividend amount on the ex-day; this market inefficiency is generally attributed to the tax-induced clientele effect and various structural frictions. We show...

This study examines the determinants of target cash reserves among publicly listed Chinese firms in the 1998 to 2009 period, and how actual levels of cash holdings adjust towards target cash reserves. The consistency of the determinants of cash reserves with the static trade-off, pecking order...

This paper presents an analysis based on a recently survey of the dividend policies of the listed firms in the Cypriot Stock Exchange. For the analysis we use a new methodology of correspondence analysis for the comparative evaluation of the opinions of members two or more different groups, as...

This study intends to examine the price-volume movements in the Arab stock markets, in order to determine the impact of changes in trade volume on the volatility of stock prices as expressed by the unified MAF stock price index. The research covers a sample of eight out of the fifteen Arab stock...