Dividend trends and determinants in East Asia during the Asian financial crisis.

• Main Authors: Koh, Eng Khim., Ng, Charmaine., Woo, Kenneth Yung Hua.
• Other Authors: Sawicki, Julia
• Format: Final Year Project
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Business::Finance::Dividends
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/10160
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We investigated the dividend trend across 8 East Asian economies over the period of 1993- 2004, we provide substantial evidence that dividends were not “disappearing” consistently since 1979 to 1999, as put forth in the research work by Fama and French (2001), based on firms solely in the United Sta...