Ham, Charles (Chad); Kaplan, Zachary; Utke, Steven - 2023
. Consistent with dividends substituting for earnings information, we find that dividend paying firms have 11%–15% lower earnings … response coefficients (ERCs) than non-payers. We find more substitution when the dividend provides a stronger signal of … permanent earnings: when the firm is less likely to cut the dividend, when the firm is likely to fund the dividend out of …