This paper explores the impact dividend taxes exert on the dividends repatriated from foreign affiliates to their … German parent company. Based on an augmented Lintner model of firms' dividend payout decisions, the paper focusses on cross …-border intra-firm dividend payments of wholly-owned foreign affiliates in the manufacturing sector. Firm-level data from the …

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 …