this paper aims to determine the impact of dividend policy on stock price volatility by taking firms listed on tehran stock exchange.  a sample of 68 listed companies from tehran stock exchange is examined for a period from 2001 to 2012.  the estimation is based on cross-sectional ordinary least square regression analysis to find the relationship between share price volatility and dividend poli...

How do dividend taxes affect firm behavior and what are their distributional and efficiency effects? To answer these questions, the first problem is coming up with an explanation for why firms pay dividends, in spite of their tax penalty. This paper surveys three different models for why firms pay dividends, and then uses each model to examine the behavioral and efficiency effects of dividend t...

We develop new tests of the dividend signaling hypothesis by focusing on the role of liquidity. We allow for two different types of signaling models: one where current dividends signal firm value and the objective is to prevent current dilution, and the other where commitments to future dividends constitute the signal. We find that the results differ by the sign of the dividend surprise. Signal...

This article documents how the changing composition of U.S. publicly traded firms has prompted a decline in the long-run mean of the aggregate dividend-price ratio, most notably since the 1970s. Adjusting the dividend–price ratio for such changes resolves several issues with respect to the predictability of stock market returns: The adjusted dividend-price ratio is less persistent, in-sample ev...

This paper examines the effect of governance and managerial alignment on dynamic dividend behavior of managers. I use a novel empirical approach to provide evidence on the role of governance and managerial alignment in explaining variation in dividend smoothing, incremental dividend decisions, and dynamic dividend behavior. Managers subject to weak monitoring and misaligned incentives are under...

Firms that follow excessive payout policies (over-payers) are higher on the financial distress spectrum and have lower survival rates than under-payers. In addition, over-payers endure future sales asset growth under-payers experience negative abnormal returns in bond stock markets. Exogenous import tariff reductions commodity price jumps reduce likelihood of overpayment. We interpret this as e...

Using quarterly data and benchmarks based on past performance-characteristics, I find little evidence that earnings change following 661 dividend decreases and 872 dividend omissions between 1980 and 1998. The exception is that earnings deteriorate during the quarter of dividend omissions, but they recover within a couple of quarters. My results further suggest that the lack of a more pronounce...