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 …

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 …

For more than 50 years, researchers around the world have been searching for a solution to Blacks famous "dividend … "traditional view" of dividend taxation, German decision-makers cut back their dividend payments in response to the reduced …

This paper investigates the impact of the 2001 tax reform in Germany on dividend announcement returns. With this major … market response to positive dividend surprises is more pronounced under the full imputation system, where dividends are … observed decline in the dividend response coefficient is synchronized with the 2001 tax reform and hence attributable to 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 …

This paper studies the impact of the concentration of control, the type of controlling shareholder and the dividend tax … preference of the controlling shareholder on dividend policy for a panel of 220 German firms over 1984-2005. While the … concentration of control does not have an effect on the dividend payout, there is strong evidence that the type of controlling …

This paper studies the impact of the concentration of control, the type of controlling shareholder and the dividend tax … preference of the controlling shareholder on dividend policy for a panel of 220 German firms over 1984-2005. While the … concentration of control does not have an effect on the dividend payout, there is strong evidence that the type of controlling …

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 …