Dividend Policy in Switzerland

Us Dividend Policy Analyses

The main issue writer examines in this writing is to analyze whether or not dividend policy is a determinant to maintain stock values or firm values as a whole. It is essential that dividend policy is managed properly to enhance the satisfaction of the investors at any level of characteristics. At the end, investors are the key that determines the stock value movement. Some investors are lookin...

Dividend Policy Decisions

Although firms have been distributing dividends to their shareholders for four centuries (Baskin, 1988), the motivation for this corporate policy is under debate in the academic community. In an early paper, Black (1976, p. 5) coined the term the “dividends puzzle” to illustrate the poor understanding of dividend payment policy: “The harder we look at the dividend picture, the more it seems lik...

Dividend Policy inside the Firm

This paper analyzes dividend remittances by a large panel of foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational firms. The dividend policies of foreign affiliates, which convey no signals to public capital markets, nevertheless resemble those used by publicly held companies in paying dividends to diffuse common shareholders. Robustness checks verify that dividend policies of foreign affiliates are little...

Dividend Policy Irrelevance and Eigenvalue Location

This note gives a quali…ed a¢ rmative answer to a natural question, asked by Ohlson and motivated by some earlier work, concerning the irrelevance of dividend policy to the calculation of equity in the context of an Ohlson style general linear accounting dynamic. Does Dividend Irrelevance occur when discounting at a rate of interest R if and only if R is set equal uniquely to the dominant eigen...

Dividend Policy and Cash Flow Uncertainty