Abstract
The study investigated the relationship between trading volume reaction around first dividends initiation. We use a sample of 546 public US firms that initiated first dividend between 2003 and 2012. Our results show that corporate governance has a significant association with trading volume reaction. These results suggest that that poor governance will increase the trading volume. In contrast, trading volume reaction does not relate to dividend payment, dividend yield and holding period return directly. Taken together our results suggest that poor governance induce investor heterogeneous belief around first dividend initiation. Our paper contributes to the growing literature on the cross sectional determinants of trading volume at the first dividend initiation.
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