The interrelation of the dividend policies of peers in emerging markets

Data set includes annual data for 605 public non-financial companies from 45 industries in emerging markets for the time period from 2000 to 2019. Data set consists of dividend per share, market capitalization, free cash flow, leverage, retained earnings, stock return, stock return volatility observations gathered from Thomson Reuters Eikon. Data was used in a Master’s thesis to test hypotheses regarding the interrelation of the dividend policies of peers in emerging markets. The main result of the research is a significant peer influence on dividend policies in emerging markets.