We analyze a firm's choice between dividend payments and stock repurchases under heterogeneous beliefs and the … of its equity, choose between paying out its cash available through a dividend payment or a stock repurchase, as well as …. Finally, we develop a number of new results characterizing a firm's long-run stock returns following dividend payments and …

the following days. This dividend pay date effect has strengthened since the 1970s, and is consistent with the temporary … price pressure hypothesis. The pay date effect is concentrated among stocks with dividend reinvestment plans (DRIPs), and is … larger for stocks with a higher dividend yield, greater DRIP participation, and greater limits to arbitrage. Over time …