...Muhammad Nurul Houqe; Michael Michael; Muhammad Jahangir Ali; Dewan Rahman Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the association between company reputation and dividend policy. Design/methodology/approach In this study, sample of 98,809 firm-year observations from 22 countries...

... to explain dividend policy is that of Lintner (1956). This study investigates whether Lintner’s model can be used to explain South African dividend payments and compares this model with another, less sophisticated, model, namely the “percentage model”. Lintner’s model does not have a very good fit, probably...