Market reaction to changes in dividend payments policy in Jordan

العناوين الأخرى

رد فعل السوق المالي في سياسة توزيع الأرباح في الأردن

مقدم أطروحة جامعية

al-Shattarat, Husni Khalil Jamil

مشرف أطروحة جامعية

Omet, Ghassan

أعضاء اللجنة

Abd Allah, Khalid Amin
Salamah, Rashid Muhammad
Husayn, Nizam Muhammad Ali

الجامعة

الأكاديمية العربية للعلوم المالية و المصرفية

الكلية

كلية العلوم المالية و المصرفية

القسم الأكاديمي

قسم المحاسبة

دولة الجامعة

الأردن

الدرجة العلمية

دكتوراه

تاريخ الدرجة العلمية

2008

الملخص الإنجليزي

The main objective of this dissertation is to examine empirically the signaling theory for a sample of firms listed at Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) during the period 2001 to 2006.

The sample consists of 215 observations.

The Event Study Methodology (ESM) is applied to examine the market reaction to dividend change announcements.

The naive model is used to classify the sample under four sub samples; Dividend Increase, Dividend Decrease, Dividend No Change and No Dividend No Change.

The market model, mean adjusted model market adjusted model, market model adjusted with Scholes and Williams and market model adjusted with Fowler and Rorke models are used to generate the expected returns.

Also, the / -test, ZD test and Corrado's non-parametric test are used to examine the significance of the mean and cumulative abnormal returns.

Overall, the results show that the market reacts positively to dividend increase, dividend decrease and dividend no change announcements.

In addition, the results indicate that there is no significant market reaction to dividend no change sample with zero distributions.

This result indicated that there is little value-relevance to dividend change announcements.

The interpretation of the positive market reaction is related to dividend release announcements rather than dividend changes.

Therefore, there is some support to the signaling hypothesis to dividend release.

Furthermore, applying thin trading models and non-parametric tests leads to the same conclusion.

التخصصات الرئيسية

العلوم الاقتصادية والمالية وإدارة الأعمال

الموضوعات

عدد الصفحات

112

قائمة المحتويات

Table of contents.

Abstract.

Chapter One : introduction.

Chapter Two : literature review.

Chapter Three : methodological approach : event study methodology.

Chapter Four : sample selection criteria and hypothesis development.

Chapter Five : market reaction to dividend payments.

Chapter Six : summary, conclusions and recommendations.

References.

نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)

al-Shattarat, Husni Khalil Jamil. (2008). Market reaction to changes in dividend payments policy in Jordan. (Doctoral dissertations Theses and Dissertations Master). Arab Academy for Financial and Banking Sciences, Jordan
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-307189

نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)

al-Shattarat, Husni Khalil Jamil. Market reaction to changes in dividend payments policy in Jordan. (Doctoral dissertations Theses and Dissertations Master). Arab Academy for Financial and Banking Sciences. (2008).
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-307189

نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)

al-Shattarat, Husni Khalil Jamil. (2008). Market reaction to changes in dividend payments policy in Jordan. (Doctoral dissertations Theses and Dissertations Master). Arab Academy for Financial and Banking Sciences, Jordan
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-307189

لغة النص

الإنجليزية

نوع البيانات

رسائل جامعية

رقم السجل

BIM-307189