Purpose - This paper aims at investigating the factors determining the dividend payout policy in the Lebanese banks listed on the Beirut Stock Exchange. Methodology - To achieve this objective, this study considers the impact of seven variables, namely, profitability, liquidity, leverage, firm size, growth, firm risk and previous year's dividend payout on the dividend payout ratios by using an unbalanced panel dataset of audited financial statement of listed banks between the years of 2005 and 2011. Two models were tested and seven hypotheses were investigated using the OLS and the dynamic ...