-run mean of the aggregate dividend-price ratio, most notably since the 1970s. Adjusting the dividend-price ratio for such … changes resolves several issues with respect to the predictability of stock market returns: The adjusted dividend-price ratio … predictability ; dividend-price ratio ; payout policy ; sample selection ; choice of organizational structure …

This paper investigates the relationship between demographic changes and the long-run returns of dividend …-fungible, the preference for high dividend-paying stocks by older investors means that the excess returns of high dividend … that, as consistent with the behavioural life-cycle hypothesis, the long-run returns of dividend-yield investment …

dividend information newly obtained from contemporaneous newspapers, along with information on capital stock obtained from …