The policyholder dividend of participating insurance is essentially different from the usual equity and bond profit. There are disputes on taxing methods in theory and practice, and different countries adopt different taxing methods. This paper designs a basic framework of the personal income tax system on participating insurance policy. This policy is based on the reality that the participatin...

This study aims to examine the effect of profitability, liquidity, leverage, free cash flow, corporate governance and asset growth on dividend policy. The object this research is 181 manufacturing company listed Indonesia Stock Exchange for 2015-2019 period. Sample selection was determined by purposive sampling method. In total, there are 24 companies that meet criteria. uses secondary data whi...

The current study aims to investigate the relationship between stock liquidity risk and financial information quality criteria (i.e. the timely dividends announcement, accruals quality and the percentage of profitability prediction error) of companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange. For this purpose, 148 cases of data from listed companies, collected from 2007 to 2012, were employed in ord...

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...

ABSTRACT Context: several methods for evaluating real options have been extensively studied and published. But recombining binomial trees, known as lattices, are perhaps one of the most practical intuitive approaches to model uncertainty price project managerial flexibilities applications. Although Cox, Ross, Rubinstein (1979) lattice is simple implement financial options, modeling lattices req...

This study investigates the relationship between gender diversity on board and dividend payouts in China using a large sample over period 2003–2017. Our results provide robust strong evidence showing that is positively associated with cash payments of dividends. The empirical outcomes confirm facilitates corporate governance subsequently promotes payouts. We demonstrate has greatest effect when...

This study examines the effect of financial flexibility and the level and certainty of operating performance on the choice to change dividends, pay special dividends, and repurchase shares. Firms that increase payouts have excess financial flexibility and exhibit positive concurrent income shocks and decreases in income volatility, but there is limited evidence of subsequent performance improve...

This study investigates the excess funds hypothesis using samples of special dividends, regular dividend increases, and self-tender offers. All three types of firms tend to have funds in excess of industry norms before the events. The excess funds are largely nonrecurring for special dividend and self-tender offer firms and recurring for regular dividend increase firms. The analysis of the stoc...

In this paper we consider the optimal control problem for a insurance company. Our objective is to maximize the expectation of discounted dividends and its terminal value which represents the company liquidation value upon the time of bankruptcy. The surplus of the insurance company is governed by the Brownian motion with a constant drift and a diffusion term. The company can manage its risk ex...