of the French East India Company, interweaving national and imperial scales through the frame of the transnational … France faced in India as a weakened imperial power, in the face of the rise of the sovereign British East India Company (EIC …). As India remained integral to the broader French imperial economy, officials and intellectuals accordingly reimagined …

We examine stock prices and the number of stocks traded around ex-dividend dates of German stocks with tax …-free dividend. Tax-free dividends are temporarily tax-exempt, as they reduce the initial purchasing price of a stock. With our … empirical results indicate that ex-date prices decline, on average, by the amount of the dividend. We do not find a significant …