Optimal dividend distribution policy from the perspective of the impatient and loss-averse investor

Yang Yang, Isao Shoji and Sumei Kanehiro

The Journal of Socio-Economics, 2009, vol. 38, issue 3, pages 534-540

Abstract: This paper discusses a problem concerning intertemporal decision-making under uncertainty when its subject has psychological biases. Here, we consider an investment company as a decision maker that invests money from investors in a financial asset and pays some dividend every period depending on the performance of the investment. On the other hand, we assume investors have such psychological biases as inconsistent time preference and loss aversion. Through numerical experiments we show that the optimal dividend distribution under inconsistent time preference and loss aversion is quite different from the distribution without these psychological factors, and that combinations of the two factors produce various patterns of dividend distribution.

Keywords: Time; inconsistent; preference; Loss; aversion; Quasi-hyperbolic; discounting; Reference-dependent; preference; Intertemporal; choice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009

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