“…A number of studies have focused on the determinants of the magnitude of market response. These determinants include firm size (Eddy and Seifert, 1988;Bessler and Nohel, 1996;Amihud and Li, 2006), dividend yield (Bajaj and Vijh, 1990;Denis et al, 1994;Amihud and Li, 2006), ownership structure (Grinstein and Michaely, 2005;Puckett and Yan, 2011;Amin et al, 2015), profitability (Amihud and Li, 2006), age (Amihud and Li, 2006;Charitou et al, 2011), magnitude of dividend change (Denis et al, 1994;Black et al, 1995;Yoon and Starks, 1995;Bessler and Nohel, 1996;Bulan, 2010), leverage (Black et al, 1995;Casey et al, 2007) and market direction such as recession (Docking and Koch, 2005). More specifically, the literature reports a negative relationship between the market response and firm size (Amihud and Li, 2006), market-tobook ratio (Casey et al, 2007) and economic recession (Kohers, 1999), and a positive relationship between market response and change in dividend yield, profitability, and information asymmetry (Amihud and Li, 2006), net taxes (Baker and Wurgler, 2004), magnitude of dividend change (Amihud and Li, 2006) and leverage and firm-specific risk (Casey et al, 2007).…”