Dividend Announcement of the Commercial Banks in DSE: Scenario and Effect on Stock Price

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2014-06

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Centre for Research on Islamic Management and Business

Abstract

In this study we have tried to show the dividend scenario of the listed commercial bank of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) from the fiscal year 2000 to 2013. The study also tried to investigate the effect of dividend announcement on stock prices based on the 28 DSE listed commercial banks. In this context declaring dividends during the fiscal year 2012-2013 have been considered as the observation period and event study methodology has been used. The result by using event study methodology indicates that there is no effect of dividend announcement on stock prices over the observation periods.

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DSE, Dividend Announcement, Event Study, AER

Citation

Vol. 2, No.1, June 2014, Page 143-155