期刊名称:International Journal of Economics and Finance
印刷版ISSN:1916-971X
电子版ISSN:1916-9728
出版年度:2010
卷号:2
期号:4
页码:52
DOI:10.5539/ijef.v2n4p52
出版社:Canadian Center of Science and Education
摘要:analyzed. This study examines stock price reactions of listed Private Commercial Banks (PCBs) in Bangladesh surrounding 44 days of the dividend announcement dates. The major objective of this study is to identify whether dividend announcement convey any information to the market that results a price reaction for adjusting the dividend announcement information. The empirical part of this study employs a standard event study methodology to analyze the stock price reaction for dividend announcement. Out of 25 listed sample banks in the observation period, market adjusted stock price declines for 11 banks, rises for 6 banks and no changes for 8 banks and statistical pooled t-test also reveals that stock price reaction to dividend announcement are not statistically significant. Finally, dividend announcement does not convey any information due to strong contribution of the insider trading as well as some other influencing factors in the capital market.