Optimal dividend strategies for a compound Poisson risk process under transaction costs and power utility

We characterize the value function of maximizing the total discounted utility of dividend payments for a compound Poisson insurance risk model when strictly positive transaction costs are included, leading to an impulse control problem. We illustrate that well known simple strategies can be optimal in the case of exponential claim amounts. Finally we develop a numerical procedure to deal with general claim amount distributions.

Testando o "dividend discountend model" com ações brasileiras

Este trabalho avalia a hipótese do Dividend Discounted Model ou Present Value Model, este modelo estabelece que o preço das ações é dado pelos dividendos futuros esperados antecipados por uma taxa apropriada de desconto. Utilizando dados de preços e dividendos de ações brasileiras, para os bancos Bradesco e Itaú, e a metodologia de vetores auto-regressivos, VAR, testamos se este modelo é respaldado empiricamente pelo comportamento dessas ações isoladamente. Como resultado geral temos uma aceitação de alguns aspectos não muito cruciais do modelo e uma forte rejeição da hipótese de que os dividendos sejam o fundamento do preço dessas ações, o que contradiz trabalhos anteriores realizados com a mesma metodologia para índices de ações.

Dividend yield e persistência de retornos anormais das ações : evidência do mercado brasileiro

Analisamos, empiricamente, o comportamento dos preços das ações após o anúncio do pagamento de dividendos. Nossa amostra foi constituída de 163 eventos, incluindo as ações mais negociadas na Bolsa de Valores de São Paulo, no período de 1998 a 2000. Encontramos uma relação direta entre o dividend yield e o retomo anormal acumulado destas ações no período pós-pagamento de dividendos, dividindo a amostra em três subamostras, em função do dividend yield. Obtivemos um retomo anormal acumulado, nos 90 dias após o evento, de 21,97% para as empresas que pagaram dividendos mais altos, 5,16% para as companhias que pagaram dividendos intermediários, e -15,50% para as empresas que pagaram dividendos mais baixos. Isto demonstra a persistência dos retornos anormais das ações no período pós-evento. Esta relação foi confirmada quando analisamos os eventos por tipo de controlador da empresa (fundos, estatais ou fanu1ias) e as companhias privatizadas, e quando pesquisamos o retomo acumulado das ações em função do percentual do lucro líquido distribuído sob a forma de dividendos.

Interação entre mercados : um estudo do 1º dia ex-dividend das ações de empresas brasileiras e de suas respectivas ADRs

O presente trabalho analisou o comportamento das ações de empresas brasileiras e de suas respectivas ADRs listadas em bolsa, em períodos próximos ao 1° dia ex-dividend. Através da análise dos retornos, pode-se perceber que as ações locais tiveram um desempenho médio superior ao das ADRs nos dias anteriores à data do evento. Esse fato sugere que os investidores estão preferindo comprar ações às ADRs, nesse período, em função de serem menos tributados quanto ao pagamento de dividendos no mercado brasileiro. Essa tendência se inverte na data do evento, quando as ADRs obtiveram um retorno bem superior ao das ações locais. A análise dos preços demonstrou que as ADRs são negociadas, em média, com um prêmio em relação as suas respectivas ações. A diferença de preços entre os papéis diminui próximo à data do evento e aumenta no dia ex-dividend, confirmando o que havia sido observado na análise dos retornos puros. O teste dos retornos anormais demonstrou que ambos os ativos apresentaram retornos anormais positivos no dia do evento, com significância estatística ao nível de 10%. Ficou evidenciado também que as ADRs tiveram um comportamento bem mais distante do esperado do que as ações locais.

WHAT THE STUDIES CONDUCTED IN BRAZIL REGARDING DIVIDEND POLICY REVEAL

This paper consists of a review of the literature about dividend policy in Brazil, focusing on the empirical studies conducted from 1990 to 2010 that were published in major Brazilian administration, accounting and finance journals and major conference proceedings on this subject. The analyzed sample comprised 39 studies using various methods and conducted in various periods. Based on the model of Harris and Raviv (1991), this paper grouped studies according to model type, and it found five main categories. We were able to find some tendencies, such as: dividend policy relevance in the Brazilian market; confirmation of existence of agency problems; conflicting findings regarding the clientele hypothesis; tax signaling in, and tax impact on, defining dividend policy; non-conflicting findings regarding key factors of dividend policy..

Corporate Governance and Dividend Policy in European Banking

This dissertation investigates corporate governance and dividend policy in banking. This topic has recently attracted the attention of numerous scholars all over the world and currently remains one of the most discussed topics in Banking. The core of the dissertation is constituted by three papers. The first paper generalizes the main achievements in the field of relevant study using the approach of meta-analysis. The second paper provides an empirical analysis of the effect of banking corporate governance on dividend payout. Finally, the third paper investigates empirically the effect of government bailout during 2007-2010 on corporate governance and dividend policy of banks. The dissertation uses a new hand-collected data set with information on corporate governance, ownership structure and compensation structure for a sample of listed banks from 15 European countries for the period 2005-2010. The empirical papers employ such econometric approaches as Within-Group model, difference-in-difference technique, and propensity score matching method based on the Nearest Neighbor Matching estimator. The main empirical results may be summarized as follows. First, we provide evidence that CEO power and connection to government are associated with lower dividend payout ratios. This result supports the view that banking regulators are prevalently concerned about the safety of the bank, and powerful bank CEOs can afford to distribute low payout ratios, at the expense of minority shareholders. Next, we find that government bailout during 2007-2010 changes the banks’ ownership structure and helps to keep lending by bailed bank at the pre-crisis level. Finally, we provide robust evidence for increased control over the banks that receive government money. These findings show the important role of government when overcoming the consequences of the banking crisis, and high quality of governance of public bailouts in European countries.

Simulating digital dividend auctions: Service neutrality versus dedicated licences

The award of the digital dividend can consolidate auctions as the preferred mechanism for spectrum allocation. Knowing in advance an estimate of what the results of an auction with these characteristics could be would be unquestionably useful for those in charge of designing the process, even if at the end another method such as a beauty contest is chosen. This article provides a simulation of a digital dividend auction in a major-type European country. In one of the scenarios, the spectrum is not pre-allocated to any service in particular (service neutrality) while in the remaining four, blocks of spectrum are pre-allocated to DTT, mobile multimedia and mobile broadband communications. The results of the simulations reveal that the service neutrality scenario maximizes revenues for the seller and that, in general, DTT operators would seem to have fewer opportunities as the spectrum packaging is less protective for them.

Growth and Euro Area Stability: The Double Dividend of a Deepened European Single Market for Services. Bertelsmann Stiftung Background Note 26 June 2015

The European Commission’s recent single market initiatives have a second important benefit beyond growth that is often overlooked: Deepening the Single Market for goods and services can also reduce imbalances in the euro area and limit its vulnerability to crises. A further integration of the Single Market thus provides a double dividend of growth and stability. This is the main issue addressed in this background note.

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Allocations of permanent and transitory earnings between retained earnings and dividend payments /

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The value of dividend imputation tax credits in Australia

A dividend imputation tax system provides shareholders with a credit (for corporate tax paid) that can be used to offset personal tax on dividend income. This paper shows how to infer the value of imputation tax credits from the prices of derivative securities that are unique to Australian retail markets. We also test whether a tax law amendment that was designed to prevent the trading of imputation credits affected their economic value. Before the amendment, tax credits were worth up to 50% of face value in large, high-yielding companies, but Subsequently it is difficult to detect any value at all. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.