Dividend policy is a decision in using profits, whether the profits earned by company will be distributed to shareholders as dividends or retained form of earning finance investments future. The pharmaceutical sub-sector has high investment realization value and relation dividends, investors definitely want return, one which through dividends. This study takes 4 variabel factors that influence ...

In this paper, we consider the optimal dividend strategy under the diffusion model with regime switching. In contrast to the classical risk theory, the dividends can only be paid at the arrival times of a Poisson process. By solving an auxiliary optimal problem, we show that the optimal strategy is the modulated barrier strategy. The value function can be obtained by iteration or by solving sys...

We consider a discrete-time dependent Sparre Andersen risk model which incorporates multiple threshold levels characterizing an insurer’s minimal capital requirement, dividend paying situations, and external financial activities. We focus on the development of a recursive computational procedure to calculate the finite-time ruin probabilities and expected total discounted dividends paid prior t...

This paper presents a dynamic asset-pricing model under asymmetric information. Investors have different information concerning the future growth rate of dividends. They rationally extract information from prices as well as dividends and maximize their expected utility. The model has a closed-form solution to the rational expectations equilibrium. We find that existence of uninformed investors ...

Using 1988 and 1991 data from nonprofit voluntary hospitals in California, we find that the vast majority of nonprofit hospitals provide community dividends in excess of the tax subsidies they receive. However, nearly 20 percent of nonprofit hospitals do not meet this standard. Further, those hospitals that do not meet the standard tend to not meet the standard over time. We recommend more expl...

This paper deals with optimal investment and redistribution of the free reserves connected to life and pension insurance contracts in form of dividends and bonus. Formulated appropriately this problem can be viewed as a modification of Merton’s problem of optimal consumption and investment with a very particular form of consumption and utility hereof. Both are linked to a finite state Markov ch...

A simple model that is commonly used to interpret movements in corporate common stock. price indexes asserts that real stock prices equal the present value of rationally expected or optimally forecasted future real dividends discounted by a constant real discount rate. This valuation model (or variations on it in which the real discount rate is not constant but fairly stable) is often used by e...