THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MACROECONOMIC VARIABLES AND THE DIVIDEND PAYOUT RATIO OF THE TEXTILE SECTOR LISTED ON PAKISTAN STOCK MARKET
Keywords:
Inflation Rate, Interest Rate, Exchange Rate, GDP Growth Rate, Unemployment rate, Dividend Payout RatioAbstract
This study empirically investigates to find the relationship of the interest rate, inflation rate, exchange rate, GDP growth rate and the unemployment rate with the dividend payout ratio by using annual time series data started from 2001 to 2017. The macroeconomic variables data was collected from State Bank of Pakistan and the dividend payout ratio data of Textile Sector listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange was collected from the official website of the companies. For analysis of the data the OLS model was applied of which the multiple regression models were applied. Before applying the OLS model the preliminary test was applied. The result of the OLS model shows that there is a positive relationship between the exchange rate and the unemployment and negative relationship between the interest rate, inflation rate and the GDP growth rate with the dividend payout ratio.References
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