We examine stock prices and the number of stocks traded around ex-dividend dates of German stocks with tax …-free dividend. Tax-free dividends are temporarily tax-exempt, as they reduce the initial purchasing price of a stock. With our … empirical results indicate that ex-date prices decline, on average, by the amount of the dividend. We do not find a significant …

"We test the hypothesis that the 2003 dividend tax cut boosted U.S. stock prices and thus lowered the cost of equity …-sectional response of prices on high-dividend versus low-dividend paying stocks. We do not find any imprint of the dividend tax cut news … on the value of the aggregate U.S. stock market. On the other hand, high-dividend stocks outperformed low-dividend stocks …

substitution hypothesis and the dividend clientele effect: High dividend paying companies have smaller positive price reactions … than non-or lower dividend paying companies. …

valuation of DAX futures contracts and test the resulting hypotheses empirically. We find that dividend taxation cannot explain … these deviations. Futures prices are lower in years with higher dividend yields, and prices of the June contract (which is …. Multivariate regressions confirm the finding that dividend taxation affects futures prices. …

increase dividend payouts significantly. Instead, in the short run, dividends will continue to rise in the customary way in …