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We assess Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend. While fertility rates and dependency ratios in Africa … Northern America. This projection suggests Africa has considerable potential to enjoy a demographic dividend. Whether and when …
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The study of autocracies and weakly institutionalized countries is plagued by scarcity of information about the relative strength of different players within the political system. This paper presents novel data on the composition of government coalitions in a sample of fifteen post-colonial...
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We examine the hypothesis that dividend taxes are capitalized into share prices by focusing on investors' implicit …-in equity is distributable as a tax-free return of capital. Consistent with dividend tax capitalization, firm-level results for … addition, differences in dividend tax rates across U.S. tax regimes are associated with predictable differences in the …
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between the log dividend-price ratio and mathematical expectations of future log real dividend changes and future real … dividend growth, measured real discount rates and unexplained factors in determining the dividend-price ratio …
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expected present discounted value of its dividend stream, with a constant discount rate. The inequality states that if this … the innovation in the dividend. The bound is valid even if prices and dividends are nonstationary.The inequality is used …
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This paper tests several competing hypotheses about the economic effects of dividend taxation. It employs British data … on security returns, dividend payout rates, and corporate investment, because unlike the United States, Britain has … experienced several major dividend tax reforms in the last three decades. These tax changes provide an ideal natural experiment …
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This paper uses British data to examine the effects of dividend taxes on investors' relative valuation of dividends and … radical changes and several minor reforms in British dividend tax policy during the last twenty-five years. Studying the … data on a much broader sample, we find clear evidence that taxes change equilibrium relationships between dividend yields …
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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 …
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Statistics of Income data for dividend and interest income earned by U.S. households from 1954 to 1980. To illustrate the effects …
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Numerous empirical studies have attempted to measure the effect of changes in dividend policy on corporate equity … values. One of the most popular study methodologies has been an examination of share price changes around ex-dividend days …. Comparing the movement in a stock's price with its nominal dividend payment leads to estimates of the stock market's relative …
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