Dividend Announcements Reconsidered: Dividend Changes versus Dividend Surprises

How dividend announcements affect stock prices

Dividend Announcements under Asymmetric Information: An Empirical Study

Previous empirical studies have documented that equity prices react to announcements of unexpected dividend changes. The most promising hypothesis forwarded as an explanation of this phenomenon is the dividend signalling hypothesis. Building on a foundation of dividend signalling models, this study employs an expanded set of explanatory variables to explain excess returns documented around divi...

Stock Price Sensitivity to Dividend Changes

This paper examines the stock price sensitivity to dividend changes. The Dividend Signaling, the Free-Cash-Flow, the Maturity and the Catering Hypotheses all predict an average positive (negative) reaction to announcement of a dividend increase (decrease). However, these hypotheses have different cross-sectional predictions. This paper documents that the positive stock price response to dividen...

Seizing the Demographic Dividend

One of the reasons for tightly regulating apprenticeships was to prevent companies from hiring cheap labour under the guise of an apprenticeship programme. A simpler set of provisions to streamline regulation and incentivize corporates while protecting the interest and well-being of apprentices may now be needed. How can it be made to work? The rules and regulations overseeing apprenticeships n...

Analysts ’ Dividend Forecasts

The most relevant practical impediment to an application of the Markowitz portfolio selection approach is the problem of estimating return moments, in particular return expectations. We analyze the consequences of using return estimates implied by analysts’ dividend forecasts under the explicit notion of taxes and non-flat term structures of interest rates and achieve quite good performance res...