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Dividend Policy and Informativeness of Reported Earnings: Evidence from the MENA Region

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  • Omar Farooq
  • Nermeen Shehata
  • Siva Nathan

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This paper documents that informativeness of reported earnings, measured by earnings–return relation, is an increasing function of dividend payout ratio in the Middle East and North Africa region during the period between 2003 and 2014. We argue that higher dividends reduce agency conflicts. Lower agency problems lead firms to disclose information more truthfully, thereby improving credibility of reported earnings. We also show that our results hold for various proxies of dividend policy.

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  • Omar Farooq & Nermeen Shehata & Siva Nathan, 2018. "Dividend Policy and Informativeness of Reported Earnings: Evidence from the MENA Region," International Review of Finance, International Review of Finance Ltd., vol. 18(1), pages 113-121, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:irvfin:v:18:y:2018:i:1:p:113-121
    DOI: 10.1111/irfi.12124
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    1. Mona A. ElBannan & Omar Farooq, 2019. "When are earnings informative?," International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 12(3), pages 388-406, June.
    2. Alla V. VAVILINA & Lidiya N. LEVANOVA & Irina N. TKACHENKO, 2019. "Interrelation between dividend policy and corporate reputation in Russian companies," Upravlenets, Ural State University of Economics, vol. 10(4), pages 14-23, September.
    3. Ramzi Benkraiem & Sabri Boubaker & Asif Saeed, 2022. "How does corporate social responsibility engagement affect the information content of stock prices?," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 43(5), pages 1266-1289, July.
    4. Kung-Cheng Ho & Hung-Yi Huang & Shengnan Liu, 2022. "Information disclosure ratings and managerial short-termism: An empirical investigation of the Chinese stock market," International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Springer, vol. 18(1), pages 349-381, March.
    5. Yousef Shahwan & Tareq Hammad Almubaydeen, 2020. "Effects of Board Size, Board Composition and Dividend Policy on Real Earnings Management in the Jordanian Listed Industrial Firms," International Journal of Financial Research, International Journal of Financial Research, Sciedu Press, vol. 11(4), pages 195-202, July.

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