Corporate payouts have reached record levels. Over the past half-century, publicly held US
firms have more than tripled inflation-adjusted dividends, while real share repurchase …

We investigate the impact of state level competition on bank dividends following the
passage of the US Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act (IBBEA). Using a sample …

Bank payout policy is strongly affected by regulation and politics, especially for the largest
banks. Banks, but not industrial firms, have consistently lower payouts in times of high …

This study investigates whether deposit insurance affects bank payout policy. To overcome
identification concerns, we use the US Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 …

This paper studies the impact of banks' dividend restrictions on the behavior of their
institutional investors. Using an identification strategy that relies on the within investor …

It is well documented that financial firms display a larger corporate payout propensity than
non-financial firms. By using an international sample of listed firms from advanced …

We study the dividend payouts of US banks during the 2008 financial crisis. Using a
difference-in-differences methodology, we shows that banks with higher share of short-term …

I exploit the exogenous liquidity windfalls from the 2003 oil and natural gas shale
discoveries to examine how positive deposit supply shocks affect bank dividend payout …

This paper studies how the informational content of dividends is affected by leverage. While
higher dividends convey good news at low levels of leverage, dividends become a bad …

This thesis provides an extensive analysis of the payout policy of Danish banks from 2000-
2022 leading to a thorough investigation of the impact of payouts in times of crisis. The latter …