BHC Dividend / Assets

Definition

Cash dividends on common stock BHCK4460 scaled by total assets BHCK2170.

$$\text{Dividend/Assets}_{i,t}=\frac{\text{BHCK4460}_{i,t}}{\text{BHCK2170}_{i,t}}$$

where BHCK4460 and BHCK2170 are from the Bank Holding Company data by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.¹

Reference

Rampini, Viswanathan and Vuillemey (2020 JF).

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1. https://www.chicagofed.org/banking/financial-institution-reports/bhc-data. ↩

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Last update: August 1, 2020