RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Have European banks maintained their payout policy during the crisis? The role of scrip dividends A1 Blanco Alcántara, David A1 Gallud Cano, Jorge A1 López Iturriaga, Félix Javier A1 López de Foronda Pérez, Óscar K1 Capital stringency K1 Dividends K1 European banks K1 Basel accords K1 Payout K1 Scrip dividends K1 Shareholder protection K1 Economía K1 Economics K1 Gestión de empresas K1 Industrial management AB We analyse the trend among 79 banks from 20 European countries towardsscrip dividends. Whereas banks do not seem to smooth cash dividends, they dosmooth total dividends, which include both cash and scrip dividends. We alsofind that the new legal requirements (resulting from the Basel III Accord andother country-level laws) have different implications on cash and scrip divi-dends. Whereas the need for better and more capital imposed by these ruleshas led banks to cut cash dividends, there is a positive relationship betweenthe legal requirements on capital adequacy and scrip dividends. PB Wiley SN 1076-9307 YR 2020 FD 2020-12 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8637 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8637 LA eng NO The authors are grateful to Philip Jaggs and to an anonymous referee for their comments on previous versions of the paper. We also thank the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness for financial support (ECO2017-84864-P). All the remaining errors are the authors' sole responsibility. DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos RD 11-dic-2024