This paper reconsiders the issue of share price reactions to dividend announcements. Previous papers rely almost … exclusively on a naive dividend model in which the dividend change is used as a proxy for the dividend surprise. We use the … difference between the actual dividend and the analyst consensus forecast as obtained from I/B/E/S as a proxy for the dividend …

This paper reconsiders the issue of share price reactions to dividend announcements. Previous papers rely almost … exclusively on a naive dividend model in which the dividend change is used as a proxy for the dividend surprise. We use the … difference between the actual dividend and the analyst consensus forecast as obtained from I/B/E/S as a proxy for the dividend …

effects considered in signaling games. We show that paying out free cash flow, either as a dividend or via repurchasing shares … dividend as long as capital gains are not heavily discriminated by taxation in relation to dividends. The positive price effect … of dividends can be enhanced if the firm implements a dividend reinvestment plan (DRIP). …

capitalisation of future dividend taxes in retained earnings, and it is robust to inclusion of a variety of control variables and … tests for possible alternative explanations. Second, we find that differences in dividend tax rates across U.S. tax regimes …-country variation in dividend tax rates is associated with predictable variation in the implied tax discount. Furthermore, the …