5.07% (12.17%) lower dividend (total) payout. Consistent with the flexibility hypothesis, we find that EPL has a greater … increase dividend payouts after employment protection is softened but are reluctant to cut dividends when employment protection …

(smaller) dividend payouts. Although high long-term institutional holdings also lead to more and larger repurchases, long …

implications, the study attempts to seek the gap between the various theories and ground realities. The theories of dividend … decisions deliberate various outcomes of a dividend policy followed by a firm. The paper intends to analyze the payout policy … changing dividend policy, and to bring out probable reasons or explanations for it. Further, the study proposes to find out …

's economic presence of three states is associated with an 8% decrease in the dividend yield or an 11% decrease in the repurchase …

The article analyses inter-dependencies between dividend, capital structure, and cost of capital, factoring the … concentrated ownership. Dividend, leverage, and average cost of capital are inter-linked. However, family firms pay lower dividends …

The study aims to evaluate the impact of board traits on the organizations' dividend pay-outratio. For the purpose … statistically significant effect on the dividend pay-outratio. On the same theme, board skills development has significant but … negative effect on the dividend pay-outratio. Nonetheless, the board gender diversity has a positive and insignificant effect …