In this paper, we assess the long-term stock price impact of 1327 cash dividend payment initiations and 1156 cash dividend payment omissions of firms listed on the NYSE and the NASDAQ, from 1972 to 2012. In particular we compare the annual returns of dividend initiating and omitting firms and...

This appendix provides the complete list of sample firms and the robustness checks results discussed in the paper, Industrial Policy and Asset Prices: Stock Market Reactions to Made In China 2025 Policy Announcements, found here:"https://ssrn.com/abstract=3521006" https://ssrn.com/abstract=3521006

Appendix available here:"https://ssrn.com/abstract=3525571" https://ssrn.com/abstract=3525571.We study the link between industrial policy and asset prices by using the Made in China 2025 industrial policy, announced in May 2015, as an external shock. We track Chinese firms and U.S. firms in ten...

Using a sample of 1,018 Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) equity investments in publicly traded firms and a control sample of 5,975 transactions by private-sector financial institutions over 1980-2012, we find that announcement-period abnormal returns of SWF investments are positive, but lower than...