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Dividend trend and the relevance of dividend

2010 International Conference on Science and Social Research (CSSR 2010), 2010
The main objective of this study entails the analysis of the dividend trend for the period between 1990 and 2006 in order to provide evidence on the relevance of dividends among Malaysian firms and investors. The ascending time-series of aggregate dividend, average dividend and number of payers imply that dividend is very much relevant among Malaysian ...
Norhayati Mohamed, Shazelina Zakaria
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Dividends and Dividend Taxation

Financial Analysts Journal, 2003
Rather than making dividend distributions tax free, why not simply allow companies to deduct dividends as they do bond coupon payments?
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Dividend persistence and dividend behaviour

Accounting & Finance, 2016
AbstractThis article demonstrates how a spurious regression problem caused by dividend persistence is compounded by a spurious correlation problem when the dependent and independent variables in dividend behaviour regressions are ratios composed of common component variables.
Chan, Kam Fong, Powell, John G., Shi, Jing, Smith, Tom   +3 more
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Dividends and Expropriation

American Economic Review, 2000
Whereas most U.S. corporations are widely held, the predominant form of ownership in East Asia is control by a family, which often supplies a top manager. These features of “crony capitalism” are actually more pronounced in Western Europe. In both regions, the salient agency problem is expropriation of outside shareholders by controlling shareholders.
Larry H. P. Lang, Mara Faccio, Leslie Young   +2 more
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Peace dividend

Science, 2018
Colombian scientists race to study once-forbidden territory before it is lost to development—or new conflict.
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The Green Dividend Dilemma: Carbon Dividends Versus Double-Dividends

FEDS Notes, 2019
By raising the price of carbon-emitting energy sources, a carbon tax would flexibly incentivize households and businesses to reduce fossil fuel consumption and substitute towards cleaner energy sources. A carbon tax would also generate a substantial stream of government revenue. This raises an important question – how should this revenue be used?
Stephie Fried, Kevin Novan, William Peterman   +2 more
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Dividends as Signaling Device and the Disappearing Dividend Puzzle

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
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.
Dmitry Shapiro, Anan Zhuang
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Are Dividends Disappearing? Dividend Concentration and the Consolidation of Earnings

Journal of Financial Economics, 2002
Although the number of dividend paying industrials declines by more than 50% over the last two decades (Fama and French (2001a)), aggregate real dividends paid by industrials increase over the same period. Dividends increase despite a precipitous decline in the number of payers because (i) the reduction in payers occurs almost entirely among firms ...
Harry DeAngelo, Linda DeAngelo, Douglas J Skinner   +2 more
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Dividend Buying: Linking Dividend Announcements and Ex-Dividend Day Effects

Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance, 1995
We provide a plausible explanation for earlier findings that positive abnormal stock returns associated with dividend announcements persist for several days and that abnormal volume and stock returns commence several days before a stock's ex-dividend day.
Helen M. Bowers, Donald Fehrs
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The Laparoscopic Dividend

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1992
To the Editor. —The cost of laparoscopic cholecystectomy can be lowered. In the recent Letters section of JAMA , 1 the hospital cost was $4633 and $6750 at two different centers. Our group has done more than 1200 laparoscopic cholecystectomies. A recent audit of 50 cases (age less than 60 years, elective cases) showed an average hospital charge of ...
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