taxes on stock prices around ex-dividend days while avoiding the non-tax confounds and inter-temporal tests that have … distributions, we provide evidence that abnormal returns and trading volume around ex-dividend days are driven by the component of … the distributions that is most tax-penalized. Our results support a tax-based explanation for ex-dividend day pricing and …

accurate forecasts relative to alternatives, including the traditional dividend yield. This remains true even after excluding …

This study examines the relationship between dividend yield and stock returns for firms in the United Arab Emirates …, where there are no taxes on dividend incomes and capital gains. Following methods of Black and Scholes (1974) and …. Our results are robust after we exclude periods with dividend omission and control for Fama-French factors …

of the classical log dividend–price ratio, we allow the data to reveal the cointegration vector between d and p. We … define the modified dividend–price ratio (mdp), as the long run trend deviation between d and p. Using S&P 500 data for the … correlation with the risk free return component, and can discern if a low dividend state coincides with a low yield state …

This study analyzes the firm-specific factors affecting the dividend payout decisions of the companies whose shares are …–Bover/Blunder-Bond two-step system generalized method of moments, a statistically significant positive effect on dividend payout was found in … the relationship between the dividend payout of the previous year, the company’s return on equity and the market value …

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 …