unconditional cross-sectional moments of household consumption growth and the moments of the risk-free rate, equity premium, price-dividend … ratio, and aggregate dividend and consumption growth. The model-implied risk-free rate and price-dividend ratio are …

Many leading asset pricing models predict that the term structures of expected returns and volatilities on dividend … these models replace their exogenously specified dividend dynamics with processes that are derived endogenously from capital …) when leverage is low (high), which shifts risk from long-horizon to short-horizon dividend strips. This framework also …

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

firm shifts its dividend risk to the upside, which amplifies the overvaluation and explains the premium. Second, we argue … market through a higher share price, but is inefficient from the perspective of dividend value …

, 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 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 …

We empirically document that stock prices moved inversely with dividend yields during the May, 1997 week, when the … share prices of other firms. Among firms paying dividends, the change in share prices was decreasing in dividend yields. The …

constraint returns help explain returns" following initial public offerings and dividend omissions. We find only limited support …

We propose and implement a new test of the dividend signaling hypothesis that is designed to discriminate between … dividend signaling and other theories that would account for the apparent existence of a dividend preference. Our test refines … the use of data on stock price responses to dividend announcements. In particular, we study the effect of dividend …