The Impact of Dividend Policy on the Relationship Between Institutional Ownership and Stock Price Volatility: Evidence from Pakistan

The Lahore Journal
of Business

Lahore Journal of Business

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The Impact of Dividend Policy on the Relationship Between Institutional Ownership and Stock Price Volatility: Evidence from Pakistan

Atif Hussain

Abstract

This study aims to determine the effects of dividend policy on the relationship between institutional ownership and stock price volatility, based on a sample of 36 firms listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange over a seven-year period (2005–11). We use a fixed-effects model applied to panel data to investigate this relationship and find that institutional ownership has a negative relation with stock price volatility and a positive relation with the dividend payout ratio. The results also show that dividend payouts significantly affect the relationship between institutional ownership and stock price volatility. The mediating role of dividend policy between institutional ownership and stock price volatility reveals that institutional investors prefer to invest in low-volatility dividend-paying stock.