distributions from 2007 to 2015 in Brazil, an important emerging country with mandatory dividend. Our results corroborates with the … profits based on theirs total dividend payout. However, some countries require a minimum payment of dividends. Despite the … existence of obligatory dividend, those studies have not decomposed dividends into the minimal required by law and corporate …

-run mean of the aggregate dividend-price ratio, most notably since the 1970s. Adjusting the dividend-price ratio for such … changes resolves several issues with respect to the predictability of stock market returns: The adjusted dividend-price ratio … predictability ; dividend-price ratio ; payout policy ; sample selection ; choice of organizational structure …

associated with investing in their shares. The additional evidence of a reasonable and stable dividend policy pursued by the …

dividend payout ratios instead correspond to higher future earnings growth. Examining both listed and delisted firms on the … Australian stock exchange over the period 1989 to 2008, we provide further evidence that the dividend payout ratio is positively …

This paper examines the effect of institutional ownership on stock volatility, returns, and dividend policy in Egypt …. It also investigates the impact of dividend policy on the direction of the relation between institutional ownership and … on dividend payout ratio. Finally, we show that private institutional ownership significantly increases volatility for …

companies. The dividend payment is the primary mean of transfer. In recent years managers of companies listed on WSE in Poland … distributing value. The statisical analysis of the dividend payments and share buyback programs should be preceded by qualitative … consequences, common practice for dividend payments policy and are buyback programs in different types of companies …

In this paper, we investigate the effects of goodwill accounting under IAS 36 on dividend policy in Italian Listed …

This paper investigates the relationship between mutual funds' holdings and listed firms' dividend policies in China … dividend rates. This maybe due to that a large stock dividend payment will have a negative impact on some key financial ratios …

-run mean of the aggregate dividend-price ratio, most notably since the 1970s. Adjusting the dividend–price ratio for such … changes resolves several issues with respect to the predictability of stock market returns: The adjusted dividend-price ratio …

acquisitions to determine how relative the existing dividend policy of the acquirer affects the choice of the payment method. Based … pre-merger dividend policy of the acquirer since the information content of dividends can alleviate adverse selection … listed targets when the acquirer is a dividend payer. Our findings indicate that acquirer dividend level is a determinant of …