Dividend policy is one of most important managerial decisions affecting the firm value. Although there are many studies regarding decision-making problems, such as credit policy decisions through bankruptcy prediction and credit scoring, there is no research, to our knowledge, about dividend prediction or dividend policy forecasting using machine learning approaches in spite of the significance...

The purpose of this study is to look at the factors that affect stock market returns so they can provide useful profits maximize profits, because it very important for investors maintain confidence and forecast price movements. Return on shares goal in investing market. Stock are divided into two forms, namely dividends differences. Investors usually do analysis with various financial variables...

We consider an infinite-horizon general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents and financial market imperfections. We investigate the role of dividend taxation on economic growth and asset price. The optimal dividend taxation is also studied.

Fama and French [2002. The equity premium. Journal of Finance 57, 637–659] estimate the equity premium using dividend growth rates to measure expected rates of capital gain. We apply their method to study the value premium. From 1945 to 2005, the expected value premium is on average 6.1% per annum, consisting of an expected dividend growth component of 4.4% and an expected dividend price ratio ...

This paper provides an empirical analysis about the relationship of corporate governance and cash dividend policy in China. The results show that equity structure and the cash dividends are related. Other factors such as executive pay are related to cash dividends. This paper also analyzes the requirement of cash dividends on behalf of the corporate governance or big shareholders "Tunnel behavi...

This article documents how the changing composition of U.S. publicly traded firms has prompted a decline in the long-run mean of the aggregate dividend-price ratio, most notably since the 1970s. Adjusting the dividend–price ratio for such changes resolves several issues with respect to the predictability of stock market returns: The adjusted dividend-price ratio is less persistent, in-sample ev...

Article history: Received 5 January 2014 Received in revised form 12 October 2014 Accepted 13 October 2014 Available online 28 October 2014 As an alternative version of the side-payment model, this paper presents a demonstration of how the necessity of winning majority support of shareholders influences the relation between a blockholder's monitoring incentive and a firm's dividend policy. When...

The present study has been conducted to examine the impact of seven most important internal factors on stock prices for all listed banks in Dubai and Abu Dhabi markets. Pooled Least Square, Fixed Effects (FE), Random (RE) models have used carry out analysis data pertaining 23 a time period between 2014-2017. aim is affecting banking sector United Arab Emirates, whether determining this are same...