This paper investigates the association between current dividends and analysts’ subsequent earnings forecast errors … positively correlated with analysts’ future forecast errors, suggesting that analysts potentially ignore the displacement effect ….e., where dividends have limited or no signaling implications) and varies in a predictable manner with dividend payouts and cost …

dividends and foreign ownership deter earnings management. The author shows that dividend increases and foreign ownership … influence of dividends in increasing earnings quality decreases. Improving transparency through dividend increases and …

We construct a price, dividend, and earnings series for the Industrials sector, the Utilities sector, and the Railroads …