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Dividends and Taxes: A Re-Examination

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  • Avner Kalay
  • Roni Michaely

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This study re-examines the impact of the differential taxation of dividends and capital gains on assets’ prices. Our analysis shows that the time horizon used to define and measure the dividend period is a key issue when interpreting the empirical results. Our results indicate that most of the return variation previously attributed to dividends is not because of a cross-sectional variation in returns, but due to the time-series variation in returns around the dividend payment. In light of the lack of cross-sectional return variation, interpreting the higher return around the dividend distribution as a tax effect is problematic.

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  • Avner Kalay & Roni Michaely, 2000. "Dividends and Taxes: A Re-Examination," Financial Management, Financial Management Association, vol. 29(2), Summer.
    • Handle: RePEc:fma:fmanag:kalay00
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    1. Frankfurter, George M. & Wood, Bob Jr., 2002. "Dividend policy theories and their empirical tests," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 11(2), pages 111-138.
    2. Stuart Archbold & Elisabete F. Simões Vieira, 2010. "Corporate Dividend Policies in Bank-based and Market-based Systems: Survey Evidence from UK and Portugal," Portuguese Journal of Management Studies, ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa, vol. 0(1), pages 34-64.
    3. Harris, Lawrence E. & Hartzmark, Samuel M. & Solomon, David H., 2015. "Juicing the dividend yield: Mutual funds and the demand for dividends," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 116(3), pages 433-451.
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    5. Fazakas, Gergely & Kosárka, Judit, 2008. "Osztalékpolitikai elméletek [Dividend policy theories]," Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Közgazdasági Szemle Alapítvány (Economic Review Foundation), vol. 0(9), pages 782-806.
    6. Clemens Sialm, 2009. "Tax Changes and Asset Pricing," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 99(4), pages 1356-1383, September.
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    8. Madelle Conales, 2022. "The Dividend Puzzle A Progress Report by Steven V. Mann (1989): A Review with Insights from Philippines' New Corporate Tax Law," Business and Economic Research, Macrothink Institute, vol. 12(2), pages 1-10, December.
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    12. Thomas McCluskey & Bruce Burton & David Power, 2007. "Evidence on Irish financial directors' views about dividends," Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 4(2), pages 115-132, June.
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    14. Dialdin Osman & Elsaudi Mohammed, 2010. "Dividend Policy In Saudi Arabia," The International Journal of Business and Finance Research, The Institute for Business and Finance Research, vol. 4(1), pages 99-113.
    15. Frankfurter, George M. & McGoun, Elton G. & Allen, Douglas E., 2004. "The prescriptive turn in behavioral finance," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier, vol. 33(4), pages 449-468, September.

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