We study the perpetual American call option pricing problem in a model of a financial market in which the firm issuing a risky asset can regulate the dividend rate by switching it between two constant values. The firm dividend policy is unknown for small investors who can only observe the prices available from the market. The asset price dynamics are described by a geometric Brownian motion wit...

In this paper we investigate the optimal risk control and dividend distribution problem for a diffusion model with a terminal value. Usually the insurer cedes risk by means of a reinsurance contract, and pays dividends out dynamically from the surplus. Consider that the insurer is trying to balance risk control and dividend payout in terms of reinsurance and dividend distribution policies. Then...

Three factors significantly influence profit repatriations by U.S. multinational firms: tax considerations, domestic financing and investment needs, and agency problems inside firms. Dividend repatriations are surprisingly persistent and resemble dividend payments to external shareholders. Tax considerations are influential but not decisive. Affiliates whose organizational forms carry differing...

The important of the demographic dividend to East Asian economic growth is now widely recognized. During the last four decades of the 20 Century the working age populations grew much more rapidly than the dependent populations fueling growth in per capita income. Over the coming decades, however, demographic change is seemingly unfavorable. In the coming decades the working-age populations of m...

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...

Within a general equilibrium model with habit persistence preferences and time varying expected dividend growth, we obtain a number of novel predictions about the time series of the cross section of asset prices. We show that assets of longer duration, i.e. that pay far in the future, are typically riskier than those of shorter duration. However, those assets that are characterized by a substan...

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 this paper, we investigate if dividend policy is influenced by ownership type. Within the dividend literature, dividends have a signaling role regarding agency costs, such that dividends may diminish insider conflicts (reduce free cash flow) or may be used to extract cash from firms (tunneling effect) – which could be predominant in emerging markets. We expect firms with foreign ownership an...