In this paper, we consider the corporate governance challenge of protecting outside investors in listed, controlled firms. European jurisdictions are supposed to be more veteran and skilled in dealing with these firms in comparison to the U.S. But we argue that outside investors in European...

We investigate the effect of a lack of an automated limit order adjustment mechanism on ex-dividend day stock price behavior in a unique environment in which there are no taxes on dividends and capital gains. The absence of taxes in Oman allows us to test the effect of the lack of a limit order...

This paper examines the effect of a reduction in tick size on ex-dividend day stock price behavior by taking advantage of unique data for which there are no taxes on dividends and capital gains and tick size is fixed for all traded securities. These data allow us to differentiate among competing...

This paper investigates the effect of liquidity on the ex-dividend day price premium. It is well documented that prices drop less than the dividend amount on the ex-day; this market inefficiency is generally attributed to the tax-induced clientele effect and various structural frictions. We show...

This paper investigates the informational content of dividend announcements and analyzes the impact of dividend announcements by firm size and dividend growth using a sample from the emerging market of Sri Lanka. Consistent with prior evidence from developed stock markets, we find that dividends...

We show that log-dividends (d) and log-prices (p) are cointegrated, but, instead of de facto assuming the stationarity of the classical log dividend–price ratio, we allow the data to reveal the cointegration vector between d and p. We define the modified dividend–price ratio (mdp), as the...

To explain the ex-day stock price behaviour, previous research has mostly focused on dividend yield and expected return. Most of these studies concentrated on US markets and were conducted in a stable economic condition. This paper examines the most liquid common stock (blue-chip) prices...

We investigate the effect of a lack of an automated limit order adjustment mechanism on ex-dividend day stock price behavior in a unique environment in which there are no taxes on dividends and capital gains. We find that overnight drop in the ask price is smaller than the overnight drop in the...

Over the years relationship between bonus issues or stock splits & stock prices has been the subject of much empirical discussion within the finance literature. According to theory, bonus issues increase the number of equity stocks outstanding but have no effect on stockholder's proportional...

We study the informational content of dividends on three Nordic civil law markets, i.e. on markets where the evidence for dividend catering has been weak. Using aggregate data on real earnings per share and payout ratios, long time series from 1969 to 2010, and methodologies which address...