This paper investigates the impact of the 2001 tax reform in Germany on dividend announcement returns. With this major … market response to positive dividend surprises is more pronounced under the full imputation system, where dividends are … observed decline in the dividend response coefficient is synchronized with the 2001 tax reform and hence attributable to the …

This paper investigates the impact of the 2001 tax reform in Germany on dividend announcement returns. With this major … market response to positive dividend surprises is more pronounced under the full imputation system, where dividends are … observed decline in the dividend response coefficient is synchronized with the 2001 tax reform and hence attributable to the …

signi cant reduction in the valuation of net dividends - in particular for high dividend yield stocks - and weakening payout … policy tax clienteles. Ex-dividend day returns are likely to be driven by short-term traders. Though the reform removed … incentives for cross-border dividend stripping and reduced tax heterogeneity among investors, we show that the high trading …

Ex-dividend date stock prices have usually been found to be smaller than the amount of dividends, and this has … dividend relationship on the Istanbul Stock Exchange, which is basically tax-free. The findings provide weak evidence of less …

tax rates on individual dividend income from zero to 28 percent. We document strong timing effects on dividend payout on a … corporations' debt-equity ratios. The debt ratios drop sharply after the implementation of the reform. -- Neutral dividend tax …