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 …

take into account financial constraints on dividend policy faced by firms investing in both the United States and the … United Kingdom. The paper incorporates financial constraints on dividend policy into the analytical framework for the … stable. -- Capital income taxation ; dividend policy ; effective marginal tax rates ; financial constraints …