dividend payout decision making and amount of it is an important issue in the corporate finance, because in this decision making the amount of money which should be paid to the investors and should be retained for investment will be determined. in a market with no trading friction, rational investors with liquidity needs can choose between dividend and selling stocks at no cost. in this article...

explaining dividend policy has been one of the most difficult challenges facing financial economists. despite decades of study, we have yet to completely understand the factors that influence dividend policy and the manner in which these factors interact.the aim of this paper is to examine the relation between dividend policy and share price volatility in tehran stock exchange (tse). the analys...

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...

Using a new variable based on a model of dividend smoothing, we find dividend growth is highly predictable and cash flow news contributes importantly to return variability. Cash flow betas derived from this predictability are central to explaining the size effect in the cross section of returns. However, they do not explain the value effect; this is explained by noise betas. We also find that t...

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...

this article conducts a research about the relationship between cash dividend policy and enterprise value based on the data coming from the A-share listed companies over period 2005-2009. In conclusion, the enterprise value has a negative correlation with the incremental and the degressive cash dividend per share, and has a positive correlation with the stable cash dividend per share. Keywords—...

dividend policy is one of the most important financial decisions that managers encounter. this study contributes to the literature of dividend and empirical research investigating the effects of dynamic factors in tehran stock exchange. based on some criteria, the study contains 133 listed firms over a 10-year period from 2001 to 2010. to test the research hypotheses, this study uses fixed effe...

Previous empirical studies have documented that equity prices react to announcements of unexpected dividend changes. The most promising hypothesis forwarded as an explanation of this phenomenon is the dividend signalling hypothesis. Building on a foundation of dividend signalling models, this study employs an expanded set of explanatory variables to explain excess returns documented around divi...