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Individual Investors Perception Of Dividends: Pakistan's Perspective, Muhammad Naeem Akhtar
Individual Investors Perception Of Dividends: Pakistan's Perspective, Muhammad Naeem Akhtar
Muhammad Naeem Akhtar
This research paper argue that there exists a strong preference for dividends among investors. The main purpose is to find the factors that lead individual investors to reveal their preference for either cash or stock dividends. The most important dividend theories are employed to test the behavior of Pakistani individual investors towards dividends. The results reveal strong evidence that individual investors in Pakistan want dividends either in the form of cash or stocks. They also have a strong preference for dividend even if a company has to pay it by borrowing.
Household Financial Ratios: A Review Of Literature, Nathan Harness, Michael Finke, Swarn Chatterjee
Household Financial Ratios: A Review Of Literature, Nathan Harness, Michael Finke, Swarn Chatterjee
Swarn Chatterjee
The literature on household financial ratios provides insight into the characteristics related to meeting common investment asset, debt, and liquidity guidelines. We know much about the contemporaneous relation between ratios and household characteristics, but the literature exploring the impact of meeting ratio thresholds on subsequent financial success is in its infancy. Ratios can be useful heuristics that efficiently provide information about financial status as well as a prescriptive guideline to motivate more efficient financial behavior. While the existing literature provides some insight into which households have adequate ratios, there are opportunities for additional empirical scrutiny and application of household resource …