Initiations and omissions of dividend payments are important changes in corporate financial policy. This paper …). However, we show that, when we control for the change in the magnitude of dividend yield (which is larger for omissions), the … significant negative market-adjusted return for firms omitting dividends of -11.0%. However, the post dividend omission drift is …

This paper presents a bound on the variance of the price-dividend ratio and a decomposition of the variance of the … price-dividend ratio into components that reflect variation in expected future discount rates and variation in expected … future dividend growth. Unobserved discount rates needed to make the variance bound and variance decomposition hold are …

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 …

, 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 …

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 investigate a consumption-based present value relation that is a function of future dividend growth. Using data on … aggregate consumption and measures of the dividend payments from aggregate wealth, we show that changing forecasts of dividend … growth make an important contribution to fluctuations in the U.S. stock market, despite the failure of the dividend …

dividend yield is typically viewed as a reflection of either changing risk, related to the business cycle, or irrational … mispricing. Extending the work on asset allocation and dividend yield by Kandel and Stambaugh (1996) to accommodate variation in …

The company's unique full-payout dividend policy allows us to estimate an asset pricing model with fundamentally … dividend yield in real terms was slightly in excess of is 5% per annum, while the long-term price growth was near zero …