Download or read book The dividend puzzle written by Reinhard Windisch and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-03-20 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Business economics - Banking, Stock Exchanges, Insurance, Accounting, grade: 2,0, University of Graz, language: English, abstract: For many years economists and financial experts have argued about the „dividend puzzle“, i.e. about the impact of dividends on stock prices. Describe this puzzle, explain why it appears so intractable, and state what might be done to bring us all closer to an acceptable solution.
Download or read book Dividend Policy written by George Frankfurter and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2003-06-24 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dividend Policy provides a comprehensive study of dividend policy. It explores the puzzle presented by dividends: irrational and subject to fashion, yet popular and desirable, they remain a priority among managers, even while perceived as largely symbolic. After exploring the history of dividend payments, from the emergence of the modern corporation to current perspectives, it traces the evolution of academic models on dividend policy. Here the authors review models of symmetric and asymmetric information before analyzing academia's accomplishments in solving the dividend puzzle. Related subjects, such as valuation and wealth distribution, round out the authors' presentation about new ways to think about one of the most intriguing subjects in financial economics. The book is recommended for professors and students in departments of finance and business, corporate finance staff, and financial regulators. The only comprehensive study of dividend policy Covers the historical evolution of dividends and academic research on dividend policy Presents new ways of thinking about dividends and dividend policy
Download or read book Payout Policy Irrelevance and the Dividend Puzzle written by Harry DeAngelo and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do firms make large cash payouts, given the tax advantages of retention? The dividend puzzle is based on the premise that low or near-zero payouts are optimal (although not uniquely so) in frictionless markets, hence should be strictly optimal when payouts are taxed. This logic reflects misunderstandings about the nature of payout policy irrelevance in frictionless markets and the implications of adding personal taxes to the standard finance model. In frictionless markets, all optimal policies require substantial payouts. Those with low or near-zero distributions are strictly sub-optimal, and are infeasible given rational expectations. Payout policy irrelevance does not carry over to general equilibrium, so it is inappropriate to conclude that many or most firms can make low payouts for extended periods. Imposition of personal taxes perturbs the frictionless equilibrium on the margin, but does not alter the implication that all optimal policies require substantial payouts. In short, the standard finance model (with or without taxes) implies, requires, and predicts the large payouts observed in the world.
Download or read book Tax policy and the dividend puzzle written by B. Douglas Bernheim and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Is the Dividend Puzzle Solved written by Maria Rosa Borges and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dividend Puzzle written by Josephat Lotto and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While we are still in the dilemma yet to have a consensus in our understanding of dividends, the empirical modeling of dividend policy has overwhelmingly relied on the model proposed by Lintner (1956). Despite the huge literature in dividends, a number of key issues remain unresolved and clear guidelines for an "optimal payout policy" have not emerged. The aim of this manuscript is to assess whether Lintner's dividend model supports dividend payments in corporate firms. In attempt to test whether the Lintner's model explains the dividend payments of the corporate firms, the manuscript tries to answer the following questions; Do corporate firms have long-term target dividend payout ratios?, Do managers focus more on dividend changes than on absolute levels?, Does Dividend follow a smoother path than earnings? And Are managers reluctant to make changes to dividends that might have to be reversed?
Download or read book Dividends as Signaling Device and the Disappearing Dividend Puzzle written by Dmitry Shapiro and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the paper we develop a generalization of the Baker and Wurgler (2012) signaling model where investors are loss-averse to dividend cuts. We apply our framework to study how firm's characteristics and manager's incentives affect payout policy properties. Our results are as follows. First, we show that firms with riskier future returns are less likely to pay dividends. However, those firms that do pay, payout more. Second, firms whose managers have a higher share of stock options are less likely to pay dividends. Third, there is a clientele effect that is investors' preferences impact the dividend policy. We show that if firm's investors are less sensitive to dividend cuts then the firm is less likely to pay dividends. Furthermore, two otherwise identical firms might have dramatically different payout policy solely due to difference in investors' preferences. Finally, we relate our model's results to the disappearing dividend puzzle.
Download or read book Dividend Policy and Valuation written by I. R. Davidson and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Stock Dividend Puzzle written by Mark Jonathon Paul Anson and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Myopia the Dividend Puzzle and Share Prices written by S. J. Nickell and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dividend Policy Puzzle written by Said M. Younes-Elfakhani and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Dividend Puzzle written by William W. Bratton and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dividend puzzle of ec ...
Download or read book Dividend Policy written by Ronald C. Lease and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With relevant anecdotes, surveys, examples, and research from the financial press, company documents, and academic literature, the book focuses less on mathematics and more on the intuition of share valuation as a function of dividend policy.
Download or read book Myopia the dividend Puzzle and Share Prices written by S. J. Nickell and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dividend Policy and Corporate Governance written by Luis Correia da Silva and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-02-26 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dividends are not only a signal about a firm's prospects under asymmetric information, but they can also act as a corporate governance device to align the management's interests with those of the shareholders. Dividend Policy and Corporate Governance is the first comprehensive volume on the relationship between dividend policy and corporate governance, and examines in detail empirical studies and current theories. Reviewing the interactions between dividend policy and other corporate governance mechanisms, it compares results for the UK and the US with those for other countries such as France, Germany, and Japan, and provides new empirical evidence on corporate governance in continental Europe and its impact on dividends. Focusing on one of the main representatives of this system, Germany, it highlights major differences between the dividend policies of German firms and those of UK or US firms. Conventional wisdom states that German dividends are lower than UK or US dividends, yet on a published-profits basis the exact converse is true. In addition, the authors demonstrate a link between corporate control structures and dividend payouts, report evidence that the existence of a loss is an additional determinant of dividend changes, and demonstrate that the tax status of the controlling shareholder and the firm's dividend payout are not linked. The conclusions reached in this book have important implications for the current debate on corporate governance, making it invaluable for academics, finance professionals, regulators, and legal advisors.
Download or read book Comparing Dividend Puzzle Solutions by Polish Canadian Norwegian and American Executives written by Agata Sierpińska-Sawicz and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study compares firms' dividend policy antecedents in four countries. The author surveys managers of 230 companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange that paid dividends over the 2001-12 period and compares the findings to survey reports from the USA, Canada, and Norway. The main antecedents of dividend policy in these countries are the level of current earnings, their stability over time, the level of expected earnings and the pattern of past dividends. The last factor is of little importance for Polish managers, as the history of dividend payouts in Polish-listed companies is brief. The establishment of factors that shape the dividend policy in public companies has crucial importance in global financial markets. Investors make cash transfers to markets that ensure a high return on invested capital. Orders from foreign investors generate almost 50% of the turnover on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. Therefore, in their decisions on the division of earnings, Polish companies should be guided by similar considerations as those displayed by companies in developed economies that seek to attract foreign investors. The study expands on the existing survey research on dividends and provides new evidence from managers of companies in Poland.
Download or read book The Dividend Puzzle written by Snehal Banerjee and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
