We examine abnormal stock returns surrounding contemporaneous earnings and dividend announcements in order to determine … interaction effect.The abnormal return corresponding to any earnings or dividend announcement depends upon the value of the other … more credence to unanticipated dividend increases or decreases when earnings are also above or below expectations, and vice …

This paper examines the empirical relation between stock returns and dividend yields. Several equilibrium pricing …

dividend growth rates of the aggregate stock market. This approach aggregates information contained in the history of price-dividend … ratios and dividend growth rates to predict future returns and dividend growth rates. We find that returns and dividend … growth rates are predictable with R-squared values ranging from 8.2% to 8.9% for returns and 13.9% to 31.6% for dividend …

The predictability of the market return and dividend growth is addressed in an equilibrium model with two regimes. A … state variable that drives the conditional means of the aggregate consumption and dividend growth rates follows different … by the price-dividend ratio with R2 11.7% if the probability of being in the first regime exceeds 50%; and dividend …

, with a given dividend process, one of the processes of the expected return, the stock volatility, or the price-dividend … the dynamics of the expected return and the price-dividend ratio. By parameterizing one or more of expected returns …

predictability, leaving dividend growth predictability at its essentially zero sample value. If neither returns nor dividend growth … are predictable, then the dividend-price ratio is a constant. If the null turns off return predictability, it must turn on … the predictability of dividend growth, and then confront the evidence against such predictability in the data. I find that …

This paper investigates the effects of capital gains and dividend taxes on excess returns around announcements of … dividend increases and ex-dividend days for U.S. corporations. Consistent with standard no-arbitrage conditions, we find that … the ex-dividend day premium increased from 2002 to 2004 when the dividend tax rate was cut. Consistent with the signalling …