dividend payments alone. The paper also examines the role that repurchases played in large BHCs' decisions to reduce or …-crisis repurchases and the size of dividend reductions for these institutions. …

We propose an explanation for the "disappearing dividend" phenomenon: the decline in the information content of … dividend announcements. This reduces the propensity of firms to pay or increase dividends, since dividends are costly.(...) …

substantial stakes, dividend payout behavior has not changed in the aftermath of the GTRA enactment. This effect does not depend … the dividend policy is strongly driven by corporate insiders …

This paper investigates the determinants of dividend policies for firms listed on Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC …) country stock exchanges. This is a case study of emerging stock exchanges, where the determinants of dividend policy have … between the years of 1999 and 2003. Seven hypotheses pertaining to agency cost theory were investigated using a series of …

In this study, the corporate dividend payout decisions of firms listed on the emerging Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC …

dividend, and how the cash dividend payers and non-payers over the size and sign of earnings heterogeneity differ in respect of …/or changing propensity to pay determine corporate dividend decisions and influence them to pay or omit cash dividends. In line … with the global trends we uncover evidence in favor of decreasing cash dividend payment behavior among Firms in the post …

This paper examines the reaction of the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE) to dividend announcements by a sample of firms … multiple event-windows that are employed and therefore, the null hypothesis, which supports the irrelevance theory as …

This paper examines the dividend-collecting firms and negative dividend payers listed on Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE …) from 1991 through 2006. Turkey used to be a unique country in terms of 50% mandatory cash dividend payment application, and … this policy pushed some firms to create other ways to overcome liquidity problems. Among the dividend-paying firms, some …

theory of signalling rather than free cash flow …Dividend initiations are an economically significant event that has important implications for a firm's future … dividend decision cautiously. We compare the long run performance of IPO firms that initiated a dividend with that of similarly …