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.本数据集涵盖2000年至2019年期间，新兴市场45个行业的605家上市非金融公司的年度数据。数据集包含从汤森路透Eikon（Thomson Reuters Eikon）采集的每股股息、市值、自由现金流、杠杆率、留存收益、股票收益率及股票收益率波动率等观测指标。该数据集曾被用于一篇硕士学位论文，以检验关于新兴市场中同行企业股利政策相互关联的研究假设。此项研究的核心结论为，同行因素对新兴市场企业的股利政策存在显著影响。