Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/195745 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Citation: 
[Journal:] International Journal of Financial Studies [ISSN:] 2227-7072 [Volume:] 6 [Issue:] 4 [Publisher:] MDPI [Place:] Basel [Year:] 2018 [Pages:] 1-16
Publisher: 
MDPI, Basel
Abstract: 
This study analyzes the firm-specific factors affecting the dividend payout decisions of the companies whose shares are traded on the Borsa Istanbul stock exchange. To this end, the dynamic panel regression is applied to 853 observations of yearly average of 106 companies listed on the Borsa Istanbul between 2009 and 2015. According to results from the Arellano-Bover/Blunder-Bond two-step system generalized method of moments, a statistically significant positive effect on dividend payout was found in the relationship between the dividend payout of the previous year, the company's return on equity and the market value/book value ratio, liquidity and the company's size. The demonstration of a positive relationship between dividend payout and return on equity supports the free cash flow hypothesis and the positive relationship with the previous year's dividend payout ratio supports the dividend smoothing hypothesis for Turkey.
Subjects: 
dividend
free cash flow hypothesis
dividend smoothing hypothesis
dividend irrelevance hypothesis
dynamic panel
Borsa Istanbul
JEL: 
G10
G30
G35
G38
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Creative Commons License: 
cc-by Logo
Document Type: 
Article

Files in This Item:
File
Size
288.27 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.