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 …

We analyze a firm's choice between dividend payments and stock repurchases under heterogeneous beliefs and the … of its equity, choose between paying out its cash available through a dividend payment or a stock repurchase, as well as …. Finally, we develop a number of new results characterizing a firm's long-run stock returns following dividend payments and …

We scrutinize the impact of dividend policy on stock price volatility by considering the seminal paper of Baskin (1989 …). In this context, we examine the relationship between volatility and three dividend policy indicators, dividend yield …, dividend payout, and stock repurchases, for 1,221 firms in eleven developed and emerging countries in Europe during the 2003 …

Taxes on capital gains are deferred until realization, whereas dividend taxes are levied upon accrual. This often makes … accelerated realizations - then dividend payments can become tax-efficient. This mechanism is appealing because it jointly …

This paper explores implications of differential personal taxation for corporate investment and dividend decisions. The … personal tax advantage of dividend deferral causes shareholders to generally prefer greater investment in real assets under … internal as opposed to external financing. Furthermore, dividend deferral is shown to be costly at the corporate level, causing …

surge of special dividends in the final months of 2010 and 2012, immediately before individual-level dividend tax rates were … their regular dividend payments by shifting what would normally be January regular dividend payments into the preceding … December. To our knowledge this is the first evidence in the literature about changes in the timing of regular dividend …

We examine stock prices and the number of stocks traded around ex-dividend dates of German stocks with tax …-free dividend. Tax-free dividends are temporarily tax-exempt, as they reduce the initial purchasing price of a stock. With our … empirical results indicate that ex-date prices decline, on average, by the amount of the dividend. We do not find a significant …

This paper finds that dividend signaling hypothesis is able to explain the phenomenon of assets concentration in short … and medium investments in Islamic Interest-Free banking (IIFBs). In this paper a dividend signaling model framework has … been introduced, where in the process of maintaining a stable dividend, mangers of Islamic Interest-Free banking (IIFBs …

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 …

We analyze 987 ex-dividend events in Taiwan stock market between January 1992 and December 2006, and find that … differential taxes really matter for the share prices and investors behaviors around the ex-dividend day. Ex-day price drop ratio … increases with the investors' average preference for dividend relative to capital gains. The excess volume around the ex-dividend …