The Global Preference for Dividends in Declining Markets

Michael Goldstein (), Abhinav Goyal (), Brian Lucey and Carl Muckley ()
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Abhinav Goyal: University of Liverpool - Management School (ULMS)
Carl Muckley: University College Dublin (UCD) - UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business

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Abstract: We find that investors across the globe differentially prefer dividend-paying stocks over non-dividend-paying stocks more in declining markets than in advancing markets, whether in developed or emerging markets or before or after the 2008 global crisis, even accounting for growth opportunities, size and risk effects. Dividend paying stocks outperform non-dividend paying stocks, by between 0.63% (China) to 3.79% (Canada) more per month in declining markets than in advancing markets. In declining markets, dividend paying firms outperform by more than any underperformance in advancing markets. Our findings show the relative outperformance of dividend paying firms, both prior to and after the 2008 sub-prime crisis, separately assuming a segmented and a fully integrated global equity market, and excluding the month of dividend declaration. The result is also robust across subsets of emerging and developed markets, across legal environments and in respect to high and low levels of dividend payer participation. In summary, we find that it is a global result that dividends do matter to shareholders, but especially so in declining markets.

Keywords: dividend policy; BRICS; G6; declining markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G11 G15 G35 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2014-11
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