We experimentally explore how investor decision horizons influence the formation of stock prices. We find that in long-horizon sessions, where investors collect dividends till maturity, prices converge to the fundamental levels derived from dividends through backward induction. In short-horizon sessions, where investors exit the market by receiving the price (not dividends), price levels and pa...

The purpose of a financial manager in dividend policy is to maximize the wealth of its owners while providing adequate funds for the company. In this research, the aim is to determine the relationship between information asymmetry, dividend policies and ownership structure. After designing information asymmetry evaluation indicators, the transaction information has been collected from the Stock...

Purpose The authors measure the cost of equity to earnings yield differential for a sample 2,035 non-financial firms. In series Logit and Tobit regressions, examine if is related dividend policy in manner predicted by agency theory. Design/methodology/approach Agency theory says firm's optimal partially determined relationship between capital. When higher (lower) than yield, firms are motivated...

This paper examines a large, nearly universal sample of hedge fund activism between January 1, 2003 and December 31, 2005. Hedge fund activism is when a hedge fund files a 13D filing after taking an initial stake of 5 percent or more in the company, and clearly states in the filing’s “purpose” section that it intends to proactively influence management’s future decisions. We find that hedge fun...

Treasury departments of financial institutions often view the management of physical cash as an unavoidable but necessary part of their business – and usually not as core to their business activities. Yet, on the other hand, cash is perceived as sensitive and in most cases cannot be outsourced completely. At the same time, even after many years of ongoing payment innovations, cash is by far sti...

This policy brief highlights flaws in the current federal tax treatment of stock buybacks and proposes to address those by equalizing dividends. (We explore proposal greater detail Hemel & Polsky, Taxing Buybacks, 38 Yale J. on Reg. 246 (2021), https://ssrn.com/abstract=3764112.) Stock allow foreign shareholders avoid U.S. withholding corporate cash distributions. also taxable investors reduce ...

Prior research, especially in the UK, has established a positive relationship, in crosssectional regression analyses, between market value and dividends. This result holds after controlling for the effects of earnings, book value, major media advertising expenditures, research and development expenditures, capital expenditures, capital contributions and ‘other information’. Papers with this res...

We investigate share price reactions to announcements of dividends payable in the common stock of corporations different from the issuing firm. We find that firms that declare these dividends (typically investment companies) experience positive abnormal returns upon announcement. We also find that such dividends are more likely to be declared when the shares to be distributed have peaked in val...

We consider a compound Poisson risk model where part of the premium is paid to the shareholders as dividends when the surplus exceeds a specified threshold level. In this model, we are interested in computing the moments of the total discounted dividends paid until ruin occurs. However, instead of employing the traditional argument which involves conditioning on the time and amount of the first...