We empirically document that stock prices moved inversely with dividend yields during the May, 1997 week, when the … share prices of other firms. Among firms paying dividends, the change in share prices was decreasing in dividend yields. The …

effects considered in signaling games. We show that paying out free cash flow, either as a dividend or via repurchasing shares … dividend as long as capital gains are not heavily discriminated by taxation in relation to dividends. The positive price effect … of dividends can be enhanced if the firm implements a dividend reinvestment plan (DRIP). …

We empirically document that stock prices moved inversely with dividend yields during the May, 1997 week, when the … share prices of other firms. Among firms paying dividends, the change in share prices was decreasing in dividend yields. The …

The rate of capital gains of the market portfolio is vastly more volatile than the dividend yield. As a result … dividend yield factor and find that this factor carries a significant negative premium in the post-1978 period that coincides … with the persistent decline in the number of US dividend-paying firms. We motivate this finding by proposing a theoretical …