This study investigates whether non-performing loans effect the bank's profitability in Turkey. The study applies a panel regression method to the quarterly data set including 1809 observation belongs to 55 Banks in Turkey during the period from 1 st quarter of 2005 to 3 rd quarter of 2016. It is found that there is a significant, negative relationship between non-performing loans and bank profitability which is measured by return on equity and return on asset. The higher non-performing loans, the lower asset quality, leads to the lower return on equity and return on asset, and the lower non-performing loans, the higher asset quality, leads to the higher return on equity and return on asset.
This study analyzes the firm-specific factors affecting the dividend payout decisions of the companies whose shares are traded on the Borsa Istanbul stock exchange. To this end, the dynamic panel regression is applied to 853 observations of yearly average of 106 companies listed on the Borsa Istanbul between 2009 and 2015. According to results from the Arellano–Bover/Blunder-Bond two-step system generalized method of moments, a statistically significant positive effect on dividend payout was found in the relationship between the dividend payout of the previous year, the company’s return on equity and the market value/book value ratio, liquidity and the company’s size. The demonstration of a positive relationship between dividend payout and return on equity supports the free cash flow hypothesis and the positive relationship with the previous year’s dividend payout ratio supports the dividend smoothing hypothesis for Turkey.
Abstract:This study investigates market reactions to cash dividend announcements by analyzing abnormal returns around the declaration date in Borsa Istanbul. The study applies a panel regression method to a data set including 902 announcement made by 118 companies during the period from 2003 to 2015. It is found that there is a significant, negative relationship between cash dividends per share and abnormal returns following the announcement of dividends. Thus, the results support the tax-clientele effect hypothesis. When a given company announces cash dividends, shareholders start to sell their holdings in order to avoid more taxation in the future; therefore, market prices decrease. Furthermore, the results suggest that there is no statistically significant information leakage prior to the announcement date, and it seems that the inefficiency of the market decreases over time as prices adapt to new information more quickly.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.