Jones, Jeffrey; Gu, Jenny; Liu, Pu - In: Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting 42 (2014) 1, pp. 143-158
We investigate whether dividends convey information about the risk of a company by examining the reaction of implied volatility in the option market to the announcement of a dividend initiation. Implied volatility decreases after the announcement and the magnitude of the decline in volatility is...