A situation in which a finite set of players can obtain certain payoffs by cooperation can be described by a cooperative game with transferable utility, or simply a TU-game. A solution for TU-games assigns a set of payoff vectors to every TU-game. Some solutions that are based on distributing dividends are the Shapley value (being the single-valued solution distributing the dividends equally am...

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...

This paper examines dividend reduction timing at the industry level, asking what firm types choose to reduce their dividends earlier in a dividend reducing cycle than others. Theory is proposed that suggests that higher quality firms will reduce dividends sooner to start rebuilding the firm‟s profitability, while lower quality firms delay reducing their dividends until they must. This paper con...

In this paper we explore the impact of various constant-proportions investment strategies (or FixedMix Rules) in an economic evolutionary market. Dividends are generated according to a new Dividend Factor Model. Furthermore, Dividends were estimated and calibrated from data using Principal Component Analysis. Moreover, we perform simulations to study the long-run outcome of an evolutionary comp...

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...

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...

We experimentally explore how investor decision horizons influence the formation of stock prices. We find that in long-horizon sessions, where investors collect dividends till maturity, prices converge to the fundamental levels derived from dividends through backward induction. In short-horizon sessions, where investors exit the market by receiving the price (not dividends), price levels and pa...

Prior research, especially in the UK, has established a positive relationship, in crosssectional regression analyses, between market value and dividends. This result holds after controlling for the effects of earnings, book value, major media advertising expenditures, research and development expenditures, capital expenditures, capital contributions and ‘other information’. Papers with this res...