by Cheung Ho-Wan Oswald, Kwok Tsz-Hong, Yeung Kwong-Yiu. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 37-42). / ABSTRACT --- p.I / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.II / LIST OF TABLES --- p.IV / Chapter / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter II. --- HISTORY OF CHINA SECURITIES MARKETS --- p.3 / Chapter III. --- WHY FIRMS PAY DIVIDENDS --- p.6 / The Bird-in-the-Hand Explanation --- p.6 / The Signaling Explanation --- p.7 / The Tax-Preference Explanation --- p.9 / The Agency Explanation --- p.10 / Chapter IV. --- HOW TO DETERMINE THE AMOUNT OF DIVIDENDS TO PAY --- p.13 / Methodology --- p.14 / Data Analysis --- p.14 / Model (L3) --- p.16 / Fama and Babiak Model --- p.16 / The Percentage Adjusted Model (PAM) --- p.17 / CAR Analysis --- p.20 / Chapter V. --- COMPANY CLASSIFICATIONS --- p.22 / Chapter VI. --- CONCLUSION --- p.25 / APPENDIX --- p.26 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.37

by Au Yuk Mui, Kitty, Lo King Yuen, Simon. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1991. / Includes bibliographical references. / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iii / ACKNOWLEDGEMENT --- p.v / Chapter CHAPTER I --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Hong Kong Stock-Market --- p.2 / History of Hong Kong Stock Market --- p.2 / Stock Indexes in Hong Kong --- p.4 / Process in Granting Dividend to Investors --- p.6 / Transaction Cost in Stock Trading --- p.7 / Chapter CHAPTER II --- HYPOTHESES --- p.10 / Chapter CHAPTER III --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.14 / Review of Hong Kong Taxation System --- p.14 / Literature Review --- p.16 / Survey on the Shareownership --- p.22 / Chapter CHAPTER IV --- METHODOLOGY --- p.26 / Data Collection --- p.26 / Stock price & Dividend --- p.26 / Market Index --- p.28 / Regression equation --- p.30 / Chapter CHAPTER V --- STATISTICAL FINDING --- p.36 / Practice of dividend payment --- p.36 / Stock price drop vs Dividend --- p.40 / Adjusted Ex-date Return vs Dividend Yield --- p.46 / Multiple regression analysis on the CAPM equation for ex-date return --- p.60 / Chapter CHAPTER VI --- LIMITATION --- p.73 / Abnormal crisis --- p.73 / Market Index --- p.74 / Portfolio approach --- p.75 / Transaction Cost --- p.76 / Chapter CHAPTER VII --- CONCLUSION --- p.77 / Chapter APPENDIX A --- "REGRESSION RESULT FOR RATE OF STOCK PRICE DROP AND DIVIDEND YIELD, IN ACCORDING TO THE DIVIDEND TYPE, WEEKDAY AND TIME LAPSE BETWEEN CUM-DATE AND EX-DATE" --- p.79 / Chapter APPENDIX B --- "REGRESSION RESULT FOR ADJUSTED EX-DATE STOCK RETURN AND DIVIDEND YIELD, IN ACCORDING TO THE DIVIDEND TYPE, WEEKDAY AND TIME LAPSE BETWEEN CUM-DATE AND EX-DATE" --- p.80 / Chapter APPENDIX C --- "RESULT OF MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS FOR ADJUSTED EX-DATE STOCK RETURN AND DIVIDEND YIELD, ACCORDING TO THE DIVIDEND TYPE, WEEKDAY AND TIME LAPSE BETWEEN CUM-DATE AND EX-DATE" --- p.82 / Chapter APPENDIX D --- THE IMPLIED RISK FREE RATE --- p.84 / REFERENCES --- p.85

In Chapter 1, we investigate the shareholder and creditor protection and look into the dividend policy implement in the stock market. The investor protection was analyzed based on the China company law and our result shows that the shareholder (creditor) protection is weak (strong) compared with the rest of the world. In China, a firm can issue as many as five different classes of shares: state shares, legal person shares, A-shares, foreign shares and employee shares. Under the weak shareholder protection in China, A-shareholders are categorized to the disadvantage group in corporate structure which demonstrates the classic free-rider problem. With the expertise and knowledge to monitor the management, controlling legal person not only enhance the corporate performance, but also expecting dividend payout as the reward. In our study, we have strong evidence on the legal person share ownership positively related to the dividend payout decision, while the A-shares and state shares ownership are negatively related to the decision on dividend payout. / The Japanese stock market provide a reasonable setting for studying intermediate-horizon price momentum effect, because Japan has the largest equity market aside from the U.S. in terms of both capitalization and number of securities. In Chapter 2, by measuring the relative strength of portfolio on the Japanese market, we found that the price momentum does not exist in the Japanese market. Further, the momentum returns keep always negative on any horizon, which is coherent in keiretsu and non-keiretsu grouping and in different trading volume. The decomposition on the expected average returns of different investment period in Japanese market shows that the price reversals is not capable to overwhelm the losses from the cross-sectional differences in mean returns and cannot yield statistically significant net momentum profits in the Japanese market. / This paper consists of two separate projects: (1) The investor protection and dividend policy in China, (2) Price momentum in Japan. / Wong Chin Pang, Antonio. / "April 2003." / Adviser: Jia He. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-09, Section: A, page: 3413. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 58-50). / Available also through the Internet via Current research @ Chinese University of Hong Kong under title: Essays in international finance (China, Japan) / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest dissertations and theses, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / School code: 1307.

Tam Wai-man Grace. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 76-77). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.ii / 序言 --- p.iii / Acknowledgement --- p.iv / Table of Contents --- p.v / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Literature Review --- p.7 / Chapter 2.1 --- Dividend Irrelevance Theory --- p.8 / Chapter 2.2 --- Bird-in-the-hand Theory --- p.9 / Chapter 2.3 --- Clientele Effect Theory --- p.10 / Chapter 2.4 --- Signaling Theory --- p.11 / Chapter 2.5 --- Agency Cost Theory / Chapter 2.5.1 --- Theoretical Models --- p.15 / Chapter 2.5.2 --- The Latest Agency Cost Model --- p.19 / Chapter 2.6 --- Residual Theory --- p.24 / Chapter 2.7 --- Other Studies on Dividend Policy / Chapter 2.7.1 --- Low-Regular-Dividend-Plus-Extras Policy --- p.26 / Chapter 2.7.2 --- Comparison of the Dividend Policies of Japanese and U.S. Firms --- p.27 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Methodology / Chapter 3.1 --- Model --- p.28 / Chapter 3.2 --- Anti-Signaling Hypothesis --- p.29 / Chapter 3.3 --- Agency Cost Hypothesis --- p.30 / Chapter 3.4 --- Residual Hypothesis --- p.31 / Chapter 3.5 --- Investment Opportunities Hypothesis --- p.32 / Chapter 3.6 --- Industry Control --- p.33 / Chapter 3.7 --- The Four-Hypothesis Model --- p.34 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Sample and Data Description / Chapter 4.1 --- Sample Description --- p.35 / Chapter 4.2 --- Variable Description --- p.36 / Chapter 4.3 --- Limitations --- p.39 / Chapter 4.4 --- Descriptive Statistics --- p.41 / Chapter Chapter 5 / Chapter 5.1 --- Regression Results and Implications --- p.42 / Chapter 5.2 --- Alternative measurement for Agency Cost Hypothesis --- p.45 / Chapter 5.3 --- Comparison of the Dividend Policies of Hong Kong and the World --- p.47 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- Conclusion --- p.49 / Tables / Table 1 Summary of the Four-Hypothesis Model --- p.50 / Table 2 Construction of Variables --- p.51 / Table 3 Dividend Payout Ratios of 83 Hong Kong Listed Firms from1992 to 1999 --- p.52 / Table 4 Earnings Growth Rate of 33 Hang Seng Index Constituents from 1996to 1999 --- p.54 / Table 5 Dividend Payout Ratio of 33 Hang Seng Index Constituents from 1996 to 1999 --- p.55 / Table 6 Regression Results for Raw Data --- p.55 / Table 7 Regression Results using Substantial Shareholders Concentration as Proxy for Agency Cost Hypothesis --- p.57 / Table 8 Summary of Regression Results --- p.58 / Charts / Chart 1 Dividend Payout Ratios of 83 Hong Kong Listed Firms from1992 to 1999 --- p.59 / Chart 2 Earnings Growth Rate of 33 Hang Seng Index Constituents from 1996 to 1999 --- p.60 / Chart 3 Dividend Payout Ratio of 33 Hang Seng Index Constituents from 1996 to 1999 --- p.60 / Appendices / Appendix 1 The Complete Dataset --- p.61 / Appendix 2 Definition of Variables in Different Sectors --- p.63 / Appendix 3 Non-Nested Tests --- p.54 / Table A3.1 Non-Nested Tests Results --- p.65 / Table A3.2 Non-Nested Test Statistics and Choice Criteria - Anti-signaling Hypothesis vs Agency Cost Hypothesis --- p.66 / Table A3.3 Non-Nested Test Statistics and Choice Criteria - Anti-signaling Hypothesis vs Residual Hypothesis --- p.67 / Table A3.4 Non-Nested Test Statistics and Choice Criteria 一 Anti-signaling Hypothesis vs Investment Opportunity Hypothesis --- p.68 / Table A3.5 Non-Nested Test Statistics and Choice Criteria ´ؤ Residual Hypothesis vs Agency Cost Hypothesis --- p.69 / Table A3.6 Non-Nested Test Statistics and Choice Criteria ´ؤ Agency Cost Hypothesis vs Investment Opportunity Hypothesis --- p.70 / Table A3.7 Non-Nested Test Statistics and Choice Criteria ´ؤ Residual Hypothesis vs Investment Opportunity Hypothesis --- p.71 / Table A3.8 Non-Nested Test Statistics and Choice Criteria ´ؤ Agency Cost Hypothesis vs Anti-signaling Hypothesis --- p.72 / Table A3.9 Non-Nested Test Statistics and Choice Criteria ´ؤ Agency Cost Hypothesis vs Residual Hypothesis --- p.73 / Table A3.10 Non-Nested Test Statistics and Choice Criteria ´ؤ Agency Cost Hypothesis vs Investment Opportunity Hypothesis --- p.74 / Table A3.11 Non-Nested Test Statistics and Choice Criteria 一 Technology Industry Phenomenon vs Anti-signaling Hypothesis --- p.75 / Bibliography --- p.76