, as compared to their conservative counterparts, pay less attention to shareholders and this is reflected in dividend … dividend payouts. In contrast, conservative CEOs pay more dividends, even if this requires redundancies …

We address the mixed empirical findings on how corporate governance affects dividend payout policy by analyzing a large … rights. In addition, we find that when shareholder rights index is high, firm-level governance is unrelated to dividend …, creditors' rights, alternative measures of dividend payout, the hierarchical modeling technology, and approaches to address …

few families. These business groups are often organised around a holding company. We analyse the dividend payouts of … the effects of several control-enhancing mechanisms (CEMs) on dividend payouts. We use precise quantitative proxies for … business group companies have lower dividend payouts as the divergence between control and ownership rights widens and the …

cash dividend policy and the strength of corporate governance measured by contractual governance provisions, such as … model of dividend determination. Specifically, we document that firms with weaker governance pay out more cash dividends …

This study examines the dividend policy behavior of Islamic and conventional banks operating in Arab markets. These … agency model of dividends for Islamic banks, and Islamic banks use the dividend policy as a substitute mechanism for …

This paper investigates whether female independent directors are more likely to impose high dividend payouts. We find … evidence that firms with a larger fraction of female directors on their board have greater dividend payouts. This finding is … robust to alternative econometric specifications, and alternative measures of dividend payouts. The positive effect of gender …

This paper compares the dividend policy of owner-controlled firms with that of firms where the owners are a minority …-owners control the firm, the strong stakeholder uses the dividend payout decision to mitigate rather than to intensify the conflict … structure, the more the actual agency cost is reduced by the strong stakeholder's dividend payout decision. These findings are …

We investigate the role of CEO power and government monitoring on bank dividend policy for a sample of 109 European … CEO turnover. We show that CEO power has a negative impact on dividend payout ratios and on performance, suggesting that …