Essays about: "Dividend policy measures"

Found 5 essays containing the words Dividend policy measures.

  1. 1. What Matters in Swedish Corporate Governance?

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Axel Edholm; Ludvig Karlsson; [2018]
    Keywords : Corporate governance; firm performance; Agency Theory; board size; gender diversity; director ownership and dividend policy.;

    Abstract : By using five measures of corporate governance, this paper sheds light on the relationship between corporate governance, firm performance and firm valuation in a sample of large Swedish firms between 2013-2016. The study is conducted on the grounds of the Agency Theory as proposed by Jensen and Meckling (1976) and influenced by corporate governance research by Bhagat and Bolton (2008). READ MORE

  3. 2. The Relationship between Changes in Cash Dividends and Volatility of Stock Returns : A study of the Swedish Stock Market

    University essay from Företagsekonomi

    Author : Sandra Renberg; Cecilia Nylander; [2013]
    Keywords : dividend policy; dividend irrelevance theory; acency costs; signaling theory; volatility; risk-return; beta; cash dividends; bird-in-the-hand hypothesis; return volatility;

    Abstract : The dividend policy and the distribution of cash dividend can be of interest to the investors from many angles. Consequently, many theories have been built on the relevance of dividend policy and there are several theories proposing that dividends increase shareholder value. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Effect of Conservative Accounting on the Bondholder-Shareholder Conflict and Cost of Debt

    University essay from Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Felix Nordlind; Samuel Lucki Racana; [2013]
    Keywords : Conservative Accounting; Bondholder-Shareholder Conflict; Corporate Debt; Bond Spread; Dividend Policy; Norway;

    Abstract : Prior research on conservative accounting and bondholder-shareholder conflict show that firms with higher degree of conservatism experience less austere conflict and lower cost of debt. However, since the implementation of IFRS in 2005, conservatism has been widely reduced in favor of fair value principles. READ MORE

  5. 4. Predictability power of firm´s performance measures to stock returns: A compatative study of emerging economy and developed economies stock market behavior.

    University essay from Fakulteten för ekonomi, kommunikation och IT

    Author : Saif Ullah; Waqar Ahmad; [2011]
    Keywords : Stock return; dividend policy measures and stock prices;

    Abstract : The stock market returns are the readily available tool for the investor to make investment decision and stock market return are affected by many accounting variables. Dividend policy measures and stock return relationship has been examined from decades but result is still a dilemma. READ MORE

  6. 5. Effect of Dividend Policy Measures on Stock Prices : With Reference to Karachi Stock Exchange, Pakistan

    University essay from Fakulteten för ekonomi, kommunikation och IT

    Author : Saif Ullah; [2011]
    Keywords : Dividend policy measures; Stock prices and accounting variables;

    Abstract : The objective of this study is to examine the dividend policy measures effect on the stock prices. A sample of 171 listed companies from Karachi Stock Exchange, Pakistan is examined for a period from 1998 to 2006. The dependent variable stock price volatility is regressed against the dividend policy measures (independent variables) e.g. READ MORE