This paper finds that dividend signaling hypothesis is able to explain the phenomenon of assets concentration in short … and medium investments in Islamic Interest-Free banking (IIFBs). In this paper a dividend signaling model framework has … been introduced, where in the process of maintaining a stable dividend, mangers of Islamic Interest-Free banking (IIFBs …

This paper analyzes the dividend payout by Romanian companies listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange in connection with … follow two reasons in deciding the dividend payout: to allocate more for investments, or to increase the dividend ratio. Each … paper found no significant correlation between the dividend policy and the corporate tax burden. However, the dividend …

corporate governance track record and a consistent dividend history. Following its adoption of fair value accounting, UES … reported the highest quarterly profit in world corporate history, but it subsequently omitted dividends for all its … investment policy were important considerations in justifying the dividend omission. The reduction in preferred dividends was not …

litigation risk affects dividend payouts on average. To address this issue, we exploit the staggered adoption of universal demand … (UD) laws across various U.S. states as quasi-exogenous shocks. We find that firms increase dividend payouts significantly …

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 … dividend on the determinants of dividends and, in a broader sense, also demonstrate that many times, by not considering …

Some mutual funds purchase stocks before dividend payments to artificially increase their dividends, which we call …

Singapore -a common law origin first world country has a built-in system of reasonably adequate investors' protection … minority shareholders extract dividend from the firms as an outcome of legal protection in a manner that mitigates problem of … expropriation by corporate insiders . Consequentially the firms follow a stable dividend policy catering to the needs of the …

reduce the dividend payout and increase the use of share repurchases …

reduce the dividend payout and increase the use of share repurchases …