Rangvid, Jesper; Schmeling, Maik; Schrimpf, Andreas - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2010
about future dividends. We show that this finding changes substantially when looking at a broad international panel of … reason why dividends in countries with large and more stable firms are more difficult to predict is that these types of firms … smooth their dividend more, and dividend smoothing disconnects movements in future dividends from dividend yield fluctuations …