IOSR-JBM   Volume-17 ~ Issue-2 ~ February-2015

Abstract: The dividend policy is one of the most debated topics in the finance literature. According to the dividend signaling hypothesis, dividend change announcements trigger share returns because they convey information about firm's future prospect. This paper focuses on the empirical analysis of the dividend signaling hypothesis and investigates the announcement effect of dividend changes. The study aims to examine the stock return behavior around the dividend announcement in Dhaka stock exchange. The event study methodology is used for this study. The abnormal return and cumulative abnormal return are calculated with market adjusted model. The event window is 30 days. The abnormal return and cumulative abnormal return are evaluated for significance using t-test. The findings of the study reveal that the reaction of stock prices to increasing cash dividend announcement is statistically significant. The evidence tends to support the dividend signaling hypothesis.
Keywords: event study, announcement date, dividend, market adjusted model.

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Abstract: This book argues that the better known financial tools invoked by analysts in evaluating the performance of firms were designed years ago to enable sustaining innovations rather than disruptive innovations.That is probably why firms have difficulty with innovation in practice even though they find the idea appealing in theory. It is therefore important to integrate across the functions of strategy and finance so that the financial tools used to evaluate a firm's performance is adequate to the purpose and reflects the contemporary reality of the financial markets. Likewise firms must be willing to acquire new strategic capabilities rather than think only in terms of expanding capacities by not only restructuring their value chains when required to do so, but by spinning-off disruptive innovations into separate units so that the criteria invoked to evaluate their performance are relevant; and the differences between sustaining and disruptive forms of innovation are not forgotten in both strategic theory and financial theory.

Keywords: Disruptive Innovation, Financial Metrics, Regulation, Sustaining Innovation, Value Chain

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Abstract: The housing finance sector in India has experiences unprecedented change in its structure since its formulation stage of being a solely a government undertaking to a very competitive sector with a large number of financing entities all over India. The paper aims to study the various factors that influence the decision of the consumer for taking Home Loan. The paper focuses on the Home loan offered by LIC and SBI and makes a comparative analysis of the factors that affect the consumers. The paper has a practical implication both for the academicians and for the readers in terms of their concern with the aspect issues regarding factors influencing the buyer behaviour towards Home loans. The paper is original in nature and the highlights of the paper can be used for further research purpose and provides knowledge base to the readers.

Keywords: Finance, Home Loan, Interest Rate, LIC, SBI

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