We examine the impact of special dividend announcements for UK firms over the period 1989-2007. We find that the market reacts positively to the announcement of these dividends, but that the reaction is stronger for firms with lower growth opportunities (low Tobin's q). For lower-growth firms,...

What role does noise play in equity markets? Answering this question usually leads immediately to specifying a model of fundamentals and hence the pervasive joint hypothesis quagmire. We avoid this dilemma by measuring noise volatility directly by focusing on the behavior of country closed-end...