Corporations: Dividends: Date from Which Cumulative Dividends Accrue

Dividends with Demand Response

Risk, Return and Dividends∗

We characterize the joint dynamics of expected returns, stochastic volatility, and prices. In particular, with a given dividend process, one of the processes of the expected return, the stock volatility, or the price-dividend ratio fully determines the other two. For example, the stock volatility determines the expected return and the price-dividend ratio. By parameterizing one, or more, of exp...

Dividends and Shareholder Taxation: Evidence from Canada∗

The effect of dividend taxes on dividend payments is a topic of considerable debate with repercussions for the cost of capital and investment. The traditional view of dividends suggests that dividend taxes lead to lower dividends, a higher cost of capital and so lower investment. In contrast, according to the new, or trapped equity, view, dividend taxes are neutral to dividend payout, the cost ...

The Distribution of Corporate Dividends

Of primary importance to the investor in corporate shares is the dividend return. But many a purchaser of shares has other dominant interests. He may desire merely to qualify to be a director. He may be a "pirate" and contenplate a particular suit which he can institute only as a shareholder. He may hope to acquire the right of a shareholder to examine the stock ledger or other books or records...

Dividends and Taxes

How do dividend taxes affect firm behavior and what are their distributional and efficiency effects? To answer these questions, the first problem is coming up with an explanation for why firms pay dividends, in spite of their tax penalty. This paper surveys three different models for why firms pay dividends, and then uses each model to examine the behavioral and efficiency effects of dividend t...