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 …, growth opportunity, business risk, and firm profitability on dividend payout ratios. The results suggest that the main …

This paper explores the relationship between employee rights and dividend policy across countries. Using labor right … index as a proxy for agency costs of employees, we test the association between labor rights and dividend policies across … dividend payment amounts. This relationship is reinforced to be more salient in civil countries where shareholder rights are …

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 reconsiders the issue of share price reactions to dividend announcements. Previous papers rely almost … exclusively on a naive dividend model in which the dividend change is used as a proxy for the dividend surprise. We use the … difference between the actual dividend and the analyst consensus forecast as obtained from I/B/E/S as a proxy for the dividend …

Dividends payment is an important signalling device used by corporations. Through the dividend policy, firms can …

This paper examines the reaction of the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE) to dividend announcements by a sample of firms …

This paper explores the relationship between employee rights and dividend policy across countries. Using labor right … index as a proxy for agency costs of employees, we test the association between labor rights and dividend policies across … dividend payment amounts. This relationship is reinforced to be more salient in civil countries where shareholder rights are …