and dividends---is incomplete and misleading: it ignores large offsetting equity issuances that move capital from …

Many large U.S. bank holding companies (BHCs) continued to pay dividends during the recent financial crisis, even as … dividend payments alone. The paper also examines the role that repurchases played in large BHCs' decisions to reduce or … eliminate dividends. Did BHCs with a high level of repurchases prior to the financial crisis cut dividends later, or by less …

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). … effects considered in signaling games. We show that paying out free cash flow, either as a dividend or via repurchasing shares …