We analyze 987 ex-dividend events in Taiwan stock market between January 1992 and December 2006, and find that … differential taxes really matter for the share prices and investors behaviors around the ex-dividend day. Ex-day price drop ratio … increases with the investors' average preference for dividend relative to capital gains. The excess volume around the ex-dividend …

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 … statistically significant in the determination of the ex-dividend day price anomaly, indicating that trading restrictions can …

This paper examines the impacts of dividend policy and ownership structure on stock price volatility in the Vietnamese … market. The study also tests for the moderating effect of foreign/state ownership on the dividend policy–price volatility … robust results indicate that dividend yield mitigates stock price volatility in the emerging market of Vietnam. The price …

In this paper, we investigate if dividend policy is influenced by ownership type. Within the dividend literature … expect firms with foreign ownership and those that are listed in overseas markets to have different dividend policies and … these effects exist in corporate dividend policy and practice. We find that both foreign ownership and cross-listing have …

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 …

This study analyzes the firm-specific factors affecting the dividend payout decisions of the companies whose shares are …–Bover/Blunder-Bond two-step system generalized method of moments, a statistically significant positive effect on dividend payout was found in … the relationship between the dividend payout of the previous year, the company’s return on equity and the market value …

This paper investigates the impact of the 2001 tax reform in Germany on dividend announcement returns. With this major … market response to positive dividend surprises is more pronounced under the full imputation system, where dividends are … observed decline in the dividend response coefficient is synchronized with the 2001 tax reform and hence attributable to the …

This paper reconsiders the issue of share price reactions to dividend announcements. Previous papers rely almost … exclusively on a naive dividend model in which the dividend change is used as a proxy for the dividend surprise. We use the … difference between the actual dividend and the analyst consensus forecast as obtained from I/B/E/S as a proxy for the dividend …

associated with investing in their shares. The additional evidence of a reasonable and stable dividend policy pursued by the …