High dividend yields imply that either future dividend growth must be low, or future discount rates must be high, or both. While previous studies have focused on the predictability of expected returns from dividend yields, dividend yields also strongly predict future dividends, and the predictability of dividend growth is much stronger than discount rates returns at a 1-year horizon. Inference ...

Based upon an examination of 987 ex-dividend events that took place on the Taiwan Stock Exchange between January 1992 and December 2006, we find that differential taxes are an important factor in terms of their effects on share prices and the behavior of investors around the ex-dividend day. Ex-day price drop ratio increases with the average investor’s preference for dividend relative to capita...

The article deals with dividends and their distribution from investors from a theoretical point of view. Some studies try to analyzed the reaction of the market on the dividend announcement and found out the change of dividend policy is associated with abnormal returns around the dividend announcement date. Another researches directly questioned the investors about their dividend preference and...

This paper examines the effect of governance and managerial alignment on dynamic dividend behavior of managers. I use a novel empirical approach to provide evidence on the role of governance and managerial alignment in explaining variation in dividend smoothing, incremental dividend decisions, and dynamic dividend behavior. Managers subject to weak monitoring and misaligned incentives are under...

Dividend relevance has been a subject of significant recent interest for academicians and researchers in the area of hospitality finance. The subject has attracted noticeable controversy, given the stringent or no-dividend payout policies observed in many hospitality firms. This study builds on existent dividend literature in hospitality finance by examining the relevance of cash dividends for ...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the dynamic dividend policy of the firms in Korea. In particular, this study empirically tests whether Korean firms follow stable dividend policies as in developed markets where dividend smoothing is a stylized fact. The paper also identifies firm-level factors that influence the degree of dividend smoothing. For this purpose, 299 firms listed on Kore...

The present study analyzes the results of 2001 survey of 81 CFOs of bt-500 companies and her most valuable PSUs in India to find out the determinants of the dividend policy decisions of the corporate India. It uses factor analytic framework on the CFOs' responses to capture the determinants of the dividend policy of corporate India. Most of the firms have target dividend payout ratio and divide...

We propose a general equilibrium model with multiple securities in which investors’ risk preferences and expectations of dividend growth are time-varying. While time-varying risk preferences induce the standard positive relation between the dividend yield and expected returns, time-varying expected dividend growth induces a negative relation between them. These offsetting effects reduce the abi...

The aim of this research is to analyze the connection between dividend announcement and stock price on Croatian capital market using event study methodology. Research period was the period from the year 2007 to the year 2009. Results have confirmed that dividend change has statistically significant value for investors. Dividend increase and dividend decrease resulted with statistically signific...