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 …

valuation of DAX futures contracts and test the resulting hypotheses empirically. We find that dividend taxation cannot explain … these deviations. Futures prices are lower in years with higher dividend yields, and prices of the June contract (which is …. Multivariate regressions confirm the finding that dividend taxation affects futures prices. …