Suppose that the equity premium is forecasted by dividend yields. Even if such a relationship does exist, there is so much noise in the equity premium that estimation, inference and forecasting cannot be carried out using the faint signal coming from the dividend yields. For analyzing equity/dividend data, it is useful to quantify the signal in a given sample. We de…ne an index of signal streng...

In the asset pricing literature, time-variation in market expected excess return tracked by financial ratios like dividend yield is typically attributed either to changing risk, related to the business cycle, or irrational mispricing. Extending the work on asset allocation and dividend yield by Kandel and Stambaugh (1996) to accommodate variation in risk as well as expected return, we develop B...

How do dividend policy decisions affect a firm’s stock price, is a widely researched topic in the field of investments and finance but still it remains a mystery that whether dividend policy affects the stock prices or not. There are those who suggest that dividend policy is irrelevant because they argue a firm’s value should be determine by the basic earning power and business risk of the firm...

This study examines share price and trading volumes data around the date of cash dividend distributions made by a sample of companies listed on The London Stock Exchange. The ex-day share price behaviour is modelled to take account of the personal taxes of long-term investors as well as the transaction costs and holding risks of short-term traders. The post-announcement drift is linked to the b...

In many developing countries and in East Asia’s NIEs, demographic change has favored economic growth. A demographic dividend or demographic window arises because the working-age populations are growing more rapidly than the number of consumers. This provides an extra boost to per capita income. As is widely appreciated, the demographic dividend is transitory. In the coming decades, the number o...

The so-called Fed model postulates that the dividend or earnings yield on stocks should equal the yield on nominal Treasury bonds, or at least that the two should be highly correlated. In US data there is indeed a strikingly high time series correlation between the yield on nominal bonds and the dividend yield on equities. This positive correlation is often attributed to the fact that both bond...

Effects of dividend policy on corporate financial growth, is a major concern of most entities. Whether dividends have an influence on the value of the firm, is an important question in dividend policy. This study aimed at investigating the effects of dividend policy on financial growth of media firms. The study was conducted in Nairobi at The Nation media Group Headquarters. Respondents were se...

explaining dividend policy has been one of the most difficult challenges facing financial economists. despite decades of study, we have yet to completely understand the factors that influence dividend policy and the manner in which these factors interact.the aim of this paper is to examine the relation between dividend policy and share price volatility in tehran stock exchange (tse). the analys...