This paper has examined that relationship of institutional shareholdings with liquidity in 95 dividend paying and 100 non dividend paying firms listed on Karachi Stock Exchange from 2008 to 2013. The results are consistent with the “Prudent Man” hypothesis, investment institutions are risk averse and prefer to invest in low volatile, dividend paying and liquid stocks. The study analyzed the imp...

This paper examines a revenue neutral green tax reform along the lines of the Double Dividend hypothesis. Using a dynamic general equilibrium model calibrated to the US economy, we find that increasing gasoline taxes and using the revenue to reduce capital income taxes does indeed deliver both types of welfare gains: from higher consumption of market goods ( an efficiency dividend), and from a ...

This paper examines the relation between ownership structure and dividend smoothing by comparing the degree of dividend smoothing engaged in by family and non-family firms. We expect family firms to exhibit less dividend smoothing behaviour than non-family firms due to lower agency conflicts and less information asymmetry experienced by family firms. Based on a sample of S&P 500 firms from 1997...

In this paper we consider an optimal dividend problem for an insurance company which risk process evolves as a spectrally negative Lévy process (in the absence of dividend payments). We assume that the management of the company controls timing and size of dividend payments. The objective is to maximize the sum of the expected cumulative discounted dividends received until the moment of ruin and...

States are increasingly turning to environmental taxes as a means of raising revenue. These taxes are often thought to generate a double dividend: an environmental dividend stemming from the environmental improvement, and an economic dividend resulting from use of the revenue from environmental taxes to reduce other distortionary taxes (e.g., income or sales taxes). We review the economic liter...

The effect of dividend taxes on dividend payments is a topic of considerable debate with repercussions for the cost of capital and investment. The traditional view of dividends suggests that dividend taxes lead to lower dividends, a higher cost of capital and so lower investment. In contrast, according to the new, or trapped equity, view, dividend taxes are neutral to dividend payout, the cost ...

We consider the problem of maximizing the expected utility of discounted dividend payments of an insurance company. The risk process, describing the insurance business of the company, is modeled as Brownian motion with drift. We mainly consider power utility and special emphasis is given to the limiting behavior when the coefficient of risk aversion tends to zero. We then find convergence of th...

This study investigates the market reaction to dividend change announcements at the Istanbul Stock Exchange. A sample of 184 announcements made by 46 companies during the period 2005 to 2008 is analyzed by using the event study methodology. The results suggest that the market reacts positively to dividend increases, negatively to dividend decreases and does not react when dividends are not chan...