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http://dx.doi.org/10.13106/jafeb.2021.vol8.no6.0071

Determinants of Dividend Policy: An Empirical Study of Consumer Goods Firms in Indonesia  

SETIAWAN, Chandra (Faculty of Business, President University)
VIVIEN, Vivien (Faculty of Business, President University)
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The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business / v.8, no.6, 2021 , pp. 71-77 More about this Journal
Abstract
This research aims to figure out the determinants of firms' dividend policy (propensity to pay dividends as well as the ratio of dividend payout). A dividend policy is a policy used by a company to decide how much it will pay out to shareholders in the form of dividends. Usually, a company retains a part of its earnings and distributes the other part as a dividend. We employed two regression models, Model 1 adopts the logistic regression, while Model 2 adopts the multiple regression to meet the research objectives. Through the purposive sampling technique which complies with the stipulated criteria, a total of 38 samples of Model 1 and 20 samples of Model 2 from the consumer goods sector in the year 2015-2018 are selected to represent the entire population. Among the five independent variables being tested, profitability and firm size reveal a significant impact on both firm's propensity to pay dividends and dividend payout ratio, while investment opportunity set and capital structure expose a statistically significant effect on dividend payout ratio, yet showed insignificant results on the dividend-paying decision. On the contrary, stock liquidity reveals no effect on both models and therefore fails to espouse the liquidity hypothesis of dividends. All independent variables exhibit a simultaneous influence on both response variables.
Keywords
Propensity to Pay Dividends; Dividend Payout Ratio; Consumer Goods Dividends; Emerging Markets; Dividends Liquidity Hypothesis;
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