Boehme, Rodney D.; Sorescu, Sorin M. - In: Journal of Finance 57 (2002) 2, pp. 871-900
We examine the long-term stock performance following dividend initiations and resumptions from 1927 to 1998. We show that postannouncement abnormal returns are significantly positive for equally weighted calendar time portfolios, but become insignificant when the portfolios are value weighted....