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48 results for dividend policy

Study finds dividend payout policy positively impacts firm profitability.

problem Determining the optimal dividend payout ratio and its effect on financial performance.
method Panel data analysis of 60 Indian listed firms over 10 years, using ROA as a proxy for profitability.
result Positive and significant relationship between dividend payout policy and firm performance.

Paper shows equivalence between two dividend preference models.

problem Understanding investor and firm preferences for dividends.
method Formulated Epstein-Zin preference, proved equivalence with Maenhout's model.
result Robust dividend policy is equivalent to a threshold strategy based on surplus process.

Default risk significantly affects the corporate policies of a firm. We develop a model in which a limited liability entity subject to Poisson default shock jointly sets its dividend policy and capital structure to maximize the expected lifetime utility from consumption of risk averse equity investors. We give a comple…

2018-10-08abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we consider the optimal dividend problem for an insurance company whose risk process evolves as a spectrally negative Lévy process in the absence of dividend payments. The classical dividend problem for an insurance company consists in finding a dividend payment policy that maximizes the total expected di…

2007-02-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Study optimal dividend and capital injection in insurance portfolios with self-exciting claim arrivals.

problem Optimal dividend and capital injection in insurance portfolios with Hawkes process claim arrivals.
method Analytical properties, explicit threshold, HJB variational inequality, finite-difference scheme, policy-gradient, actor-critic methods.
result Learned strategies closely match the PDE benchmark and remain stable across initial conditions.

In this paper we study the optimal dividend problem for a company whose surplus process evolves as a spectrally positive Levy process. This model including the dual model of the classical risk model and the dual model with diffusion as special cases. We assume that dividends are paid to the shareholders according to ad…

2013-02-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Optimal dividends strategy in a two-state regime-switching environment.

problem Maximizing profits from dividends until bankruptcy in a company with fluctuating cash surplus and regime changes in drift, volatility, and bankruptcy levels.
method Analyzes the optimal dividend payout strategy considering four factors: Brownian fluctuations in cash surplus, regime changes in drift, volatility, and bankruptcy levels.
result Rich structure of the optimal strategy, which can be either barrier-type or liquidation-barrier type, depending on model parameters.

In this note we study the optimal dividend problem for a company whose surplus process, in the absence of dividend payments, evolves as a generalized compound Poisson model in which the counting process is a generalized Poisson process. This model including the classical risk model and the Polya-Aeppli risk model as sp…

2013-05-08abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper analyzes optimal dividend and capital injection strategies under time-inconsistent preferences.

problem Optimal dividend and capital injection strategies under time-inconsistent preferences.
method Diffusion risk model with general discount functions, weak equilibrium definition, HJB equation system.
result Explicit solutions and threshold types of optimal strategies derived under different discount functions.

Study shows how business cycle affects dividend payout based on managerial stock incentives.

problem Impact of managerial stock incentives on dividend payout policy during business cycles.
method Using S&P 1500 companies data from 2000-2018, analyzing full sample and recession periods.
result Negative relationship between managerial stock options and dividend payouts, significant for medium-sized companies.

Optimal dividend strategy with ratcheting and capital injection under Cramér-Lundberg model.

problem Optimal dividend payout for an insurance company with ratcheting constraints and capital injections.
method Systematic probabilistic and PDE-based approach to solve HJB equation, constructing strong solution and optimal strategy.
result Existence and uniqueness of strong solution, explicit optimal feedback control strategy.

Optimal control problem for firm cash flow with dividend and capital injection strategies.

problem Maximizing dividends while managing capital injections in a firm's cash flow.
method Proved two optimal strategies: mean-reverting dividends with capital injections or no injections until ruin.
result Optimal strategies are dichotomous: either mean-reverting dividends with injections or no injections.

Two firms compete in a financial market, choosing dividend strategies to avoid default and maximize profits.

problem Strategic interaction between two financially constrained firms in a market with default risk.
method Construct Nash equilibria in feedback form for a class of two-person stochastic games of singular control.
result Explicit identification of optimal strategies and equilibrium payoffs for different initial conditions.

We propose a model in which dividend payments occur at regular, deterministic intervals in an otherwise continuous model. This contrasts traditional models where either the payment of continuous dividends is controlled or the dynamics are given by discrete time processes. Moreover, between two dividend payments, the st…

2018-05-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Optimizes bank capital structure under Basel III constraints, simplifying complex dynamics.

problem Optimizing risky investments, dividends, and capital structure under Basel III constraints.
method Formulated as a stochastic control problem, reducing dynamics to a one-dimensional process in leverage ratio.
result Simple policy: pay dividends at an upper barrier and recapitalize at the distress boundary.

The paper optimizes insurer's decisions on dividends, reinsurance, and capital injection under model uncertainty.

problem Maximizing insurer's expected discounted dividends while managing model uncertainty and risk.
method Modeling reserve levels as diffusion processes, solving for optimal strategies in closed form.
result Optimal strategies include barrier dividend and capital injection policies.

We study a practical optimization problems for venture capital investments and/or Research and Development (R&D) investments. The first problem is that, given the amount of the initial investment and the reward function at the initial public offering (IPO) market, the venture capitalist wants to maximize overall discou…

2007-03-28abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we propose a new model for pricing stock and dividend derivatives. We jointly specify dynamics for the stock price and the dividend rate such that the stock price is positive and the dividend rate non-negative. In its simplest form, the model features a dividend rate that is mean-reverting around a consta…

2019-08-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Over the last decade, dividends have become a standalone asset class instead of a mere side product of an equity investment. We introduce a framework based on polynomial jump-diffusions to jointly price the term structures of dividends and interest rates. Prices for dividend futures, bonds, and the dividend paying stoc…

2018-03-06abs ↗pdf ↗

New approach to optimal dividend control with mean-variance criterion.

problem Balancing expected dividends and variability in a singular control framework.
method Game-theoretic approach to find time-consistent equilibrium strategies.
result Verification theorem for MV singular dividend control problem.

Optimal dividend strategy with irreversible reinsurance constraints.

problem Maximizing dividends while adhering to ratcheting and irreversible reinsurance constraints.
method Modeling dividend and reinsurance levels as nondecreasing processes, solving Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation.
result Threshold strategy is optimal for maximizing discounted dividends until ruin.

We study an optimal dividend problem under a bankruptcy constraint. Firms face a trade-off between potential bankruptcy and extraction of profits. In contrast to previous works, general cash flow drifts, including Ornstein--Uhlenbeck and CIR processes, are considered. We provide rigorous proofs of continuity of the val…

2017-06-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Study optimal periodic dividend strategies for risky businesses with transaction costs.

problem Optimal periodic dividend strategies for spectrally positive Lévy risk processes with fixed transaction costs.
method Investigates periodic (bu,bl)(b_u,b_l) strategies for a Poisson arrival process of decision times.
result A periodic (bu,bl)(b_u,b_l) strategy is optimal with lump sum dividends net of transaction costs.

This paper uses basket option formulas to price vanilla options with discrete dividends.

problem Pricing vanilla options on stocks with discrete cash dividends.
method Uses existing basket option formulas for European options on a single asset with cash dividends in the piecewise lognormal model.
result Explains the use of basket option formulas for a specific problem in the piecewise lognormal model.

This paper solves an optimal dividend payout problem with ratcheting constraints using a novel method.

problem Optimal dividend payout under ratcheting constraints for a Brownian motion surplus process.
method Novel partial differential equation method to solve the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation.
result Existence and uniqueness of solution in stronger functional spaces, strict monotonicity, boundedness, and CC^\infty-smoothness of the free boundary.

The paper analyzes optimal dividend strategies for risky businesses, considering both periodic and extraordinary payments.

problem Maximizing dividends paid until ruin, net of transaction costs.
method Modeling cash surplus as Brownian motion, considering different types of dividends with transaction costs.
result Optimal strategies depend on business profitability and transaction costs, sometimes including liquidation.

We study a singular stochastic control problem faced by the owner of an insurance company that dynamically pays dividends and raises capital in the presence of the restriction that the surplus process must be above a given dividend payout barrier in order for dividend payments to be allowed. Bankruptcy occurs if the su…

2019-02-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Optimizes dividend payouts with fixed costs and regime switching.

problem Maximizing dividends with fixed transaction costs and regime switching.
method Identifies optimal dividend strategy as a two-barrier impulsive strategy.
result Explicit determination of optimal strategy for various drift and volatility scenarios.

Optimal dividend payout strategy found for Brownian risk model with ratcheting constraint.

problem Optimal dividend payout from a surplus process governed by Brownian motion with drift under ratcheting constraint.
method Solved a two-dimensional optimal control problem using viscosity solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations.
result Threshold and curve strategies identified as optimal for different dividend rate sets.

Study optimal strategies for insurer's dividends, investments, and liabilities.

problem Maximize insurer's utility of dividend payments over an infinite horizon.
method Perturbation approach to obtain optimal strategy and value function in closed form.
result Obtained optimal strategy and value function for log and power utility.