Previous research showed that the dividend price ratio process changed remarkably during the 1980's and 1990's, but that the total payout ratio (dividends plus repurchases over price) changed very little. We investigate implications of this difference for asset pricing models. In particular, the...

We investigate the empirical implications of using various measures of payout yield rather than dividend yield for asset pricing models. We find statistically and economically significant predictability in the time series when payout (dividends plus repurchases) and net payout (dividends plus...

By the end of January 2001, all NYSE stocks had converted their price quotations from 1/8ths and 1/16ths to decimals. This study examines the effect of this change in price quotations on ex-dividend day activity. We find that abnormal ex-dividend day returns increase in the 1/16th and decimal...

We compare the dividend policies of publicly- and privately-held firms in order to help identify the forces shaping corporate dividends, and shed light on the behavior of privately-held companies. We show that private firms smooth dividends significantly less than their public counterparts,...