Purpose – This paper aims to identify the views of Dublin‐based financial analysts and major Irish fund managers on dividends. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses semi‐structured interviews with 16 participants and analyses their responses concerning the role of dividends in the...

This thesis investigates corporate Ireland's attitude to dividend payments and examines how the Irish stock market reacts to company announcements about dividends. Prior to this study, the attitude of company executives and investors to dividend policy in Ireland was not reported in the academic...

Purpose – This study aims to provide a modern perspective on the role of dividends in smaller developed countries such as Ireland by examining views regarding the determinants of payout levels, the role of taxation and the relevance of conventional signalling theory....

Purpose – This study aims to provide a modern perspective on the role of dividends in smaller developed countries such as Ireland by examining views regarding the determinants of payout levels, the role of taxation and the relevance of conventional signalling theory....

Purpose – This study aims to provide a modern perspective on the role of dividends in smaller developed countries such as Ireland by examining views regarding the determinants of payout levels, the role of taxation and the relevance of conventional signalling theory....

Purpose – This study aims to examine the extent to which UK directors failed to report their share trading in the timeframe required by extant regulations in the run-up to the changes in insider trading law contained in the Financial Services and Markets Act. Design/methodology/approach –...

The paper examines three hypotheses about the effect of insider trading on the market response to new financing announcements (NFAs) using a sample of disclosures made by UK firms between 1989 and 1991. The study demonstrates first that no systematic relationships exist between the market...

Deeply-discounted rights issues (DDRIs) remain rare on the world's largest stock markets, but the costs and benefits of such issues have attracted renewed attention in recent years as market regulators search for ways of driving down the cost of external fund raising. The relative scarcity of...