Disappearing dividends : an East Asian perspective

• Main Authors: Ang, Keng Ban, Low, Qiu Lin, Tan, Wee Kiat
• Other Authors: Sawicki, Julia
• Format: Final Year Project
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Business::Finance::Dividends
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/9457
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We track dividend trends for 8 countries in East Asia from the period 1975 to 2000. We attempt to explain for these trends using firm-specific and country-level determinants. We find that there is indeed a trend of declining dividends as per documented by Fama and French for US-based firms.