This study analyzes the firm-specific factors affecting the dividend payout decisions of the companies whose shares are …–Bover/Blunder-Bond two-step system generalized method of moments, a statistically significant positive effect on dividend payout was found in … the relationship between the dividend payout of the previous year, the company’s return on equity and the market value …

We characterize the joint dynamics of dividends, expected returns, stochastic volatility, and prices. In particular …, with a given dividend process, one of the processes of the expected return, the stock volatility, or the price-dividend … ratio fully determines the other two. For example, together with dividends, the stock volatility process fully determines …