This study examines internal capital market inefficiencies and U.S. multinational firms' return of capital to shareholders. Using dividends and repurchases to measure the return of capital, we first document a difference in the relations between shareholder payouts and cash held either...

We hypothesize that family firms’ dividend policies are in part determined by a consumption smoothing motive of family shareholders. Our paper tests this hypothesis using a Japanese dividend tax reform in 2011 which increased the dividend tax rate for only some groups of major family...

This paper explores the impact dividend taxes exert on the dividends repatriated from foreign affiliates to their German parent company. Based on an augmented Lintner model of firms' dividend payout decisions, the paper focusses on cross-border intra-firm dividend payments of wholly-owned...

Tax effects on distribution policy have been at the center of debate in the theoretical and empirical literature for over half a century. Theoretically, there are two major schools of thought on the matter. The “traditional view” predicts an influence of taxation on firms' payouts, while the...

A Dividend Reinvestment Plan (DRP) allows firms to increase their dividend payout and, at the same time, enables managers to retain cash in the firm for new investment opportunities. We examine the determinants of a firm's decision to adopt a DRP under the Australian dividend imputation regime...

This study examines the characteristics of firms that have an underwritten Dividend Reinvestment Plan (“UDRP”) under the dividend tax imputation system in the Australian equity market. An underwritten dividend reinvestment plan is a DRP in which the underwriter guarantees a set participation...

Tax codes regularly create conflicts of interests between small and large shareholders with respect to the payout decision of firms. We use this fact to study (i) whether firm behavior reflects preferences of blockholders and (ii) the effectiveness of minority shareholder protection on...

This study focuses on the relationship between dividend payout ratio and DRP (Dividend Reinvestment Plan) adoption within the framework of the Australian dividend tax imputation system. Since the decision to adopt the DRP (Dividend Reinvestment Plan) is effected through the distribution of...

This paper investigates the association between taxes and the cost of equity capital in an international setting that allows for exogenous, cross-sectional variation in corporate and investor tax rates. Using a sample of firms from 33 countries over a 21-year period, we find that the cost of...

This study examines the characteristics of firms that have an underwritten Dividend Reinvestment Plan (“UDRP”) under the dividend tax imputation system in the Australian equity market. An underwritten dividend reinvestment plan is a DRP in which the underwriter guarantees a set participation...