stock selection method in stock exchange is an important issue for investors in such markets. investors will gain benefits more than market average provided that they make logical decisions while selecting stocks. the issue of stock selection in markets like tehran stock exchange (that are not so efficient) is requires more attention of the investors as there is not a suitable equilibrium betwe...

Based upon an examination of 987 ex-dividend events that took place on the Taiwan Stock Exchange between January 1992 and December 2006, we find that differential taxes are an important factor in terms of their effects on share prices and the behavior of investors around the ex-dividend day. Ex-day price drop ratio increases with the average investor’s preference for dividend relative to capita...

dividend payout decision making and amount of it is an important issue in the corporate finance, because in this decision making the amount of money which should be paid to the investors and should be retained for investment will be determined. in a market with no trading friction, rational investors with liquidity needs can choose between dividend and selling stocks at no cost. in this article...

It is almost an article of faith that managers have a preference for smooth dividends. Yet, it is not clear if this reflects investors’ preferences. In this paper, we study whether investors indeed value dividend smoothing stocks differently by exploring the implications of dividend smoothing for firms’ stock prices and cost of capital. Using over 80 years of data, we find no robust relationshi...

We use data from options and futures markets to recover the prices of dividend strips on the aggregate stock market. The price of a k-year dividend strip is the present value of the dividend paid in k years. The value of the stock market is the sum of all dividend strip prices across maturities. We study the asset pricing properties of strips and find that expected returns, Sharpe ratios, and v...

This paper analyzes the behavior of stock prices around ex-dividend days after the implementation of the 1986 Tax Reform Act that dramatically reduced the difference between the tax treatment of realized long-term capital gains and dividend income in 1987 and completely eliminated the differential in 1988. We show that this tax change had no effect on the ex-dividend stock price behavior, which...