Dividend Policy is one of the most important financial decisions that managers encounter. This study contributes to the literature of dividend and empirical research investigating the effects of dynamic factors in Tehran Stock Exchange. Based on some criteria, the study contains 133 listed firms over a 10-year period from 2001 to 2010. To test the research hypotheses, this study uses Fixed Effe...

dividend policy is one of the most important financial decisions that managers encounter. this study contributes to the literature of dividend and empirical research investigating the effects of dynamic factors in tehran stock exchange. based on some criteria, the study contains 133 listed firms over a 10-year period from 2001 to 2010. to test the research hypotheses, this study uses fixed effe...

This study focuses on the intraday relative timing of same day announcements of earnings and dividends. The price effects of three timing patterns are examined: (a) both earnings and dividends announced after the close of trading, (b) dividends announced before and earnings announced after the close of trading, and (c) earnings announced before and dividends announced after the close of trading...

We propose a generalized framework for the modeling of tradeable securities with dividends which are not necessarily cash dividends at fixed times or continuously paid dividends. In our setup the dividend processes are only required to be semi-martingales. We give a definition of self-financing replication which incorporates dividend processes, and we show how this allows us to translate standa...

In this note we value and hedge European options on assets paying discrete stochastic dividends. Our hedging strategy is based only on the underlying asset, risk-free bonds and dividend strips. Our simple strategy is easily seen to be compatible with early results based, among other things, on the existence of a dividend forward contract. Such contracts, however, are not traded in the market pl...