The purpose of this study is to identify the determinants of dividend policy in Malaysian financial institutions. Panel data set were constructed from 33 financial institutions in Malaysia for a period of 10 years (2001-2010). The results show a statistically significant positive relationship between dividend policy and profitability, which implies that Malaysian financial institutions distribu...

Hansjörg Albrecher, Reinhold Kainhofer, Robert F. Tichy In the framework of classical risk theory we consider the process Rt = u+ c t− ∑N(t) i=1 Xi, where c is a constant premium density, N(t) denotes a homogeneous Poisson process with intensity λ which counts the claims up to time t, and the claim amounts Xi are iid random variables with distribution function F (y). In this context Rt represen...

We consider the optimal dividends problem for a company whose cash reserves follow a general Lévy process with certain positive jumps and arbitrary negative jumps. The objective is to find a policy which maximizes the expected discounted dividends until the time of ruin. Under appropriate conditions, we use some recent results in the theory of potential analysis of subordinators to obtain the c...

We study the expected time to ruin in a risk process in which dividends are paid when the surplus is above the barrier. We consider the case in which the dividend rate is smaller than the premium rate. We obtain results for the classical compound Poisson risk process with phase-type claim size. When the ruin probability is 1, we derive the expected time to ruin and the expected dividends paid. ...

this paper aims to determine the impact of dividend policy on stock price volatility by taking firms listed on tehran stock exchange.  a sample of 68 listed companies from tehran stock exchange is examined for a period from 2001 to 2012.  the estimation is based on cross-sectional ordinary least square regression analysis to find the relationship between share price volatility and dividend poli...

In this paper, we consider the optimal dividend strategy under the diffusion model with regime switching. In contrast to the classical risk theory, the dividends can only be paid at the arrival times of a Poisson process. By solving an auxiliary optimal problem, we show that the optimal strategy is the modulated barrier strategy. The value function can be obtained by iteration or by solving sys...

Our paper suggests a simple, recursive residuals (out-of-sample) graphical approach to evaluating the predictive power of popular equity premium and stock market timeseries forecasting regressions. When applied, we find that dividend ratios should have been known to have no predictive ability even prior to the 1990s, and that any seeming ability even then was driven by only two years, 1973 and ...

Yes. We find that dividend changes predict future unexpected earnings changes in each of the next four quarters. These earnings impacts are persistent, leading to higher than expected earnings levels for at least three years after the dividend change. These results are robust to various measures of expected earnings, including analyst forecasts and a flexible function of past earnings and retur...

Recent empirical studies of dividend taxation have found that: (1) dividend tax cuts cause large, immediate increases in dividend payouts, and (2) the increases are driven by firms with high levels of shareownership among top executives or the board of directors. These findings are inconsistent with existing "old view" and "new view" theories of dividend taxation. We propose a simple alternativ...