This paper examines how the effects of dividend taxation on the cost of new equity funds depend on whether or not … shareholders can recover their original equity injections without being subject to the dividend tax. We point out the alternative … that the shareholders cannot recover their original equity injections without being subject to the dividend tax …

-run mean of the aggregate dividend-price ratio, most notably since the 1970s. Adjusting the dividend-price ratio for such … changes resolves several issues with respect to the predictability of stock market returns: The adjusted dividend-price ratio … predictability ; dividend-price ratio ; payout policy ; sample selection ; choice of organizational structure …

This paper examines prediction errors in the general dividend discount model using a back-test method. The prediction … varying lengths are examined in our tests. We include firms with a continuous record of dividend payments over the 20 years in …