Determinants of dividend payout ratios in Ghana

By M. Amidu, J. Abor. 2006

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Subfields: Accounting, Strategy and Management

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The determinants of dividend policy in Pakistan (2008, background): “The evidence supported by the findings of Farina and Fronda (2005), Amidu and Abor (2006) and contrast from the results of Belans et al. (2007).”
Determinants of the Dividend Policy: An Empirical Study on the Lebanese Listed Banks (2014, methodology): “However; the findings are contradicted by Pruitt and Gitman (1991), Baker and Powell (2000), Aivizian et al (2003) and Amidu and Abor (2006).”
How Does Dividend Policy Affect Firm Performance? A Ghanaian Case (2017, unknown): “…policy of firms including transaction cost, uncertainty resolution, tax, accounting manipulation behavioral finance, cashflow, agency cost and sginalling (see Allen and Michaely, 2002; Gordon, 1961, 1962; Bhattacharya, 1979; Shefrin and Statman, 1984; Easterbrook, 1984; Amidu and Abor, 2006).”
An Empirical Analysis of Determinants of Dividend Policy - Evidence from the UAE Companies (2012, background): “Amidu and Abor (2006) have maintained that the profitability is highly negative and significantly associated with the dividend payout, which shows that the firms invest in their assets rather than paying dividends to shareholders. Similarly, Kania and Bacon (2005) have found that the higher the retu”
Determinants of Dividend Payout Ratios: Evidence from United States (2010, methodology): “Recently Amidu and Abor [1] found a positive relationship between tax and dividend payout ratios.”
Dividend policy and payout ratio: evidence from the Kuala Lumpur stock exchange (2007, background): “Introduction The dividends and dividend policy were the subject of many studies for many years from past to present (e.g. Lintner, 1956; Gordon, 1959; Miller and Modigliani, 1961; Mancinelli and Ozkan, 2006; Amidu and Abor, 2006; Zhou and Ruland, 2006).”