Dividends From Science

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 ...

Exempting Corporate Dividends from Individual Income Taxes

As the centerpiece of its “growth package,” the Bush Administration proposes to eliminate taxes that individuals pay on dividend payments they receive from corporations. These dividends would receive tax-free treatment to the extent that they have been paid from profits subject to the corporate income tax. For individuals who hold shares in companies that do not pay dividends, the proposal woul...

Dividends Distribution and Earnings Persistence: Evidence from Chinese Listed Companies

Dividends distribution of Chinese listed companies is irregular, and the level of dividends can’t match that of earnings persistence. This paper empirically investigates the relationship between dividends distribution, including payout policy and level of cash dividends, and earnings persistence. Different from current literature, this paper is the first to investigate the relationship between ...

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...