Stable regular dividends can deliver the steady operation of a firm’s performance to its investors. When firms experience lower efficiency and more negative performance, they affect their cash burden dividends. According conversion cycle theory, quicker inventory turnover could benefit firm, it is significant signal high performance. In real business environment, expectation future production, ...

The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the effect operating cash flow and earnings on stock returns dividends/cash dividends. This uses independent variables, namely profit, dependent variable research sample was taken from basic chemical industrial companies listed Indonesian exchange. Sampling done by using purposive sampling method. data collected secondary official website Indo...

holding cash is a matter of managerial discretion. theaim of this paper is to contrast the effect of accruals quality on cashholding for a sample of 120 firms listed in the tehran stock exchangeduring 2001-2011.the results show that firms with good accruals quality hold lower cashlevels than firms with poor accruals quality. this result conform thefindings of teruel & solano (2009), which state...

We consider the optimal dividends problem for a company whose cash reserves follow a general Lévy process with certain positive jumps and arbitrary negative jumps. The objective is to find a policy which maximizes the expected discounted dividends until the time of ruin. Under appropriate conditions, we use some recent results in the theory of potential analysis of subordinators to obtain the c...

Using more than 112,000 firm-year observations in 33 countries, we find that two Hofstede’s cultural dimensions, uncertainty avoidance and long-term orientation, remain significant in the determination of dividend policy even after controlling for governance and firm-specific factors. When uncertainty avoidance is high, only firms in countries with stronger investor protection pay more dividend...

This paper develops and tests a dynamic, sequential equilibrium model of corporate cash payout policy that endogenizes a firm's dividend initiation decision, and its extreme reluctance to subsequently cut dividends in a sequential equilibrium. After payment of dividends, all excess cash is disgorged via stock repurchases that elicit no price reactions. The theoretical model generates results co...

Of primary importance to the investor in corporate shares is the dividend return. But many a purchaser of shares has other dominant interests. He may desire merely to qualify to be a director. He may be a "pirate" and contenplate a particular suit which he can institute only as a shareholder. He may hope to acquire the right of a shareholder to examine the stock ledger or other books or records...

From the existing literature, it is not clear what effect financing constraints have on the sensitivities of firms’ investment to their cash flow. I propose an explanation that reconciles the conflicting empirical evidence. I present two models: The unconstrained model, in which firms can raise external funds, and the constrained model, in which firms cannot do so. Using low dividends to identi...