Dividend smoothing remains a puzzle for …nancial economists. We present a model in which smoothing of dividends arises as an equilibrium outcome. A manager who cares about the intrinsic value of the …rm as well as its current stock price has to decide how to allocate earnings between investments and dividends. Since the stock price is determined by uninformed investors, the manager has an incen...

The 2003 dividend tax reform has generated renewed interest in understanding the economic effects of dividend taxation. The reform introduced favored tax treatment of individual dividend income, whereby dividends are taxed at a rate of 15 percent instead of facing the regular progressive individual income tax schedule with a top rate of 35 percent. Several recent studies have used the 2003 tax ...

this article intends to examine some theoretical viewpoints related to share values and prices in the stock market. in this context, the role of di vid end policie s, as well as the corelation of pricing th eories and dividends in postulating the market prices are studied. furthermore, the effects of promotion sh ares in the market, and the role of price anticipations and expected trends in the...

The economic assumption that a present value relation holds between consumption and income and between stock prices and dividends, or the statistical assumption that the consumption/ income ratio and the dividend/price ratio are stationary imply that the permanent or random walk component in each series of a pair must be the same as the permanent component in the other series of a pair. Either ...

If the subject of dividend distribution is limited to what dividends actually represent, there should be no room for uncertainty in conversation. However, dividends, which are defined as a portion company's profit that belongs each shareholder at end financial year, relation shares held by him, can raise new questions many different respects. Not only they about when requested or who belong cas...

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 ...

This paper shows that unexpected stock returns must be associated with changes in expected future dividends or expected future returns A vector autoregressive method is used to break unexpected stock returns into these two components. In U.S. monthly data in 1927-88, one-third of the variance of unexpected returns is attributed to the variance of changing expected dividends, one-third to the va...