Managerial Finance: Volume 25 Issue 6

Dividend policy issues in regulated and unregulated firms: a managerial perspective

H. Kent Baker, Gary H. Powell

Outlines previous research on four explanations for and various factors influencing dividend policy; and reports a survey of senior managers in US listed companies to determine…

Dividends and market efficiency: a multi‐index arbitrage investment strategy

Robert A. Kunkel, Michael C. Ehrhardt, Gregory A. Kuhlemeyer

Outlines previous research on the relationship between dividend policy and stock returns; and uses a linear programme and multi‐index model to form an investment strategy to see…

Agency cost, market risk, investment opportunities and dividend policy – an international perspective

Juliet D’Souza, Atul K. Saxena

Reviews previous research on dividend policy, most of which is US‐based, and presents a worldwide study of the relationship between dividend payout, agency costs, market risk and…

Research note: neural network analysis of dividend policy

J. Vincent Eagan, Vijaya Subrahmanyam, Kasim Alli

Summarizes the main hypotheses used in previous research on dividend policy and reports a study of patterns in dividend payouts/growth using neural networks as a data mining…

Managerial ownership, dividend and debt policy in the US banking industry

Amitabh S. Dutta

Reviews previous research on the relationship between ownership structure, debt structure and dividend policy within the context of agency theory, which has usually excluded…