was exacerbated by large scale payments of dividends, in spite of widely anticipated credit losses. Dividend payments …

We empirically decompose the S&P 500's dividend yield into (1) a rational forecast of long-run real dividend growth, (2 …) the subjectively expected risk premium, and (3) residual mispricing attributed to the market's forecast of dividend growth …

We recover prices of dividend strips on the aggregate stock market using data from derivatives markets. The price of a … k-year dividend strip is the present value of the dividend paid in k years. The value of the stock market is the sum of … all dividend strip prices across maturities. We study the properties of strips and find that expected returns, Sharpe …

evaluates the effect of foreign earnings on dividend payments by American corporations. The results suggest that the effect may …

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 …

dividend income and that on accruing capital gains. It describes the construction of weighted average marginal tax rate series … impact of this change on payout depends on the elasticity of dividend payments with respect to the after-tax value of … dividend income relative to capital gains. Time series estimates suggest an elasticity of more than three, and imply that the …

conditions under which the variation in a small asset's price-dividend ratio can be attributed almost entirely to variation in …

through principal component analysis of the covariance matrix of log price dividend ratios of twenty five equity portfolios … formed on Size and Book-to-Market. We identify two price-dividend ratio factor proxies for economy wide long run risk, one … returns alone. The price dividend ratio factors perform better than the stock index price dividend ratio and the corporate …

to obtain a term structure of expected dividend growth rates and a term structure of risk premia, which allows us to … decompose the equity risk premium by maturity. We find that both expected dividend growth rates and risk premia exhibit … substantial variation over time, particularly for short maturities. In addition to predicting dividend growth, equity yields help …