The effect of dividend taxes on dividend payments is a topic of considerable debate with repercussions for the cost of capital and investment. The traditional view of dividends suggests that dividend taxes lead to lower dividends, a higher cost of capital and so lower investment. In contrast, according to the new, or trapped equity, view, dividend taxes are neutral to dividend payout, the cost ...

Abstract This study examines the effect of investor-level income taxes on profit repatriation and dividend payout policies multinational firms. The empirical estimations include two million firm-year observations in 130 countries. By augmenting Lintner model payments, I employ parametric as well semiparametric techniques to provide evidence that dividends neither alter payments investors nor wi...

This paper considers the optimal dividend payment problem in piecewise-deterministic compound Poisson risk models. The objective is to maximize the expected discounted dividend payout up to the time of ruin. We provide a comparative study in this general framework of both restricted and unrestricted payment schemes, which were only previously treated separately in certain special cases of risk ...

The concept of Other Comprehensive Income (OCI) refers to the difference between fair value and historical assets, resulting from applying principles in financial statement preparation. Despite being unrealized income, it affects equity, some its items have a real potential be realized coming period. Previous research has mainly studied effect income (net income) on dividends, while impact espe...

This paper examines the extent to which swings in stock prices can be related to variations in the discounted value of expected future dividends when investors face uncertainty about their future behavior. I develop an econometric model that accounts for the instability of U.S. dividend growth and discount rates during the past 120 years. Estimates of the model reveal that changing forecasts of...

In the talk we will address the problem of finding an optimal dividend policy for a class of jumpdiffusion processes. The jump component is a compound Poisson process with negative jumps, and the drift and diffusion components are assumed to satisfy some regularity and growth restrictions. With each dividend payment there is associated a fixed and a proportional cost. The aim is to maximize exp...

The paper incorporates liquid reserves, interest and dividends in the compound Poisson surplus model. When an insurer’s surplus is below a certain level, it is kept as liquid reserves. As the surplus attains the level, the excess of the surplus above the level will earn interest at a constant interest rate. If the surplus continues to surpass a higher level, the excess of the surplus above this...

In all large scale projects, there correspond cash flows that incur throughout the life of the project. The scheduling of these projects to maximize the present value of the cash flows has been a topic of recent research. The basic assumption of earlier research is that the cash flows are mainly associated with some events of the project and they occur at the event realization times. However, i...

We study the Black-Scholes model for American options with dividends. We cast the problem as a free-boundary problem for heat equations and use transformations to rewrite the problem in linear complementarity form. We use explicit and implicit finite difference methods to obtain numerical solutions. We implement and test the methods on a particular example in MATLABr. The effects of dividend pa...