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- March 2011
- Article
What Do Dividends Tell Us About Earnings Quality
By: Douglas Skinner and Eugene F. Soltes
Over the past 30 years, there have been significant changes in the distribution of earnings (cross-sectional variation has increased, with increasing left skewness) as well as in corporate payout policy, with many fewer firms paying dividends and the emergence of stock...
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Keywords:
Distribution;
Business Earnings;
Change;
Policy;
Stocks;
Investment Return;
Performance Consistency;
Quality
Skinner, Douglas, and Eugene F. Soltes. "What Do Dividends Tell Us About Earnings Quality." Review of Accounting Studies 16, no. 1 (March 2011).
- March 1995 (Revised November 1995)
- Supplement
Dividend Policy at FPL Group, Inc. (B)
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Craig F Schreiber
FPL's dividend policy and the reaction of the financial markets are examined.
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Esty, Benjamin C., and Craig F Schreiber. "Dividend Policy at FPL Group, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 295-106, March 1995. (Revised November 1995.)
- May 1993 (Revised October 1993)
- Case
Wesfarmers Limited.: The Dividend Decision
By: Dwight B. Crane
Crane, Dwight B. "Wesfarmers Limited.: The Dividend Decision." Harvard Business School Case 293-098, May 1993. (Revised October 1993.)
- Article
How Bigger Dividends Build Trust
By: Joseph B. Fuller
Fuller, Joseph B. "How Bigger Dividends Build Trust." Financial Times (October 7, 2003).
- March 2016
- Article
Dividends as Reference Points: A Behavioral Signaling Approach
By: Malcolm Baker, Brock Mendel and Jeffrey Wurgler
We outline a dividend signaling model that features investors who are averse to dividend cuts. Managers with strong unobservable cash earnings separate by paying high dividends but retain enough to be likely not to fall short next period. The model is consistent with a...
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Keywords:
Investment
Baker, Malcolm, Brock Mendel, and Jeffrey Wurgler. "Dividends as Reference Points: A Behavioral Signaling Approach." Review of Financial Studies 29, no. 3 (March 2016): 697–738.
- February 2004 (Revised February 2004)
- Supplement
Dividend Policy at Linear Technology
By: Malcolm P. Baker
Spreadsheet to (9-204-066). Download only.
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- December 2001
- Article
Repatriation Taxes and Dividend Distortions
By: Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James R. Hines Jr.
Desai, Mihir A., C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. "Repatriation Taxes and Dividend Distortions." National Tax Journal 54, no. 4 (December 2001).
- 20 Mar 2012
- News
Flush With Cash, Apple Plans Buyback and Dividend
- August 2008
- Supplement
Progressive Corporation: Variable Dividends (CW)
By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Brenda W. Chia
Keywords:
Insurance Industry
- February 1996 (Revised November 1998)
- Case
Brown Group, Inc.--The Dividend Decision
By: Joseph L. Bower
Bower, Joseph L. "Brown Group, Inc.--The Dividend Decision." Harvard Business School Case 396-265, February 1996. (Revised November 1998.)
- October 2003
- Teaching Note
Dividend Policy at Linear Technology (TN)
By: Malcolm P. Baker
Teaching Note to (9-204-066).
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Keywords:
Semiconductor Industry
- 30 Oct 2008
- News
Banks to Continue Paying Dividends
- Article
Dividend Policy inside the Multinational Firm
By: Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James R. Hines Jr.
Desai, Mihir A., C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. "Dividend Policy inside the Multinational Firm." Financial Management 36, no. 1 (Spring 2007). (Winner of Pearson/Prentice Hall Prize for Best Paper in Financial Management For the best paper published in Financial Management in the previous two years presented by Financial Management Association.)
- 2003
- Other Unpublished Work
Dividends and Equity Investing Under the New Tax Law: Focus on Company Performance, Not Dividends
By: Michael B. Clement and Abby Joseph Cohen
- January 2016 (Revised April 2017)
- Case
The Galaxy Dividend Income Growth Fund's Option Investment Strategies
By: W. Carl Kester
This case is designed to provide an elementary introduction to options and option pricing for beginning finance students. Analysis of the case requires students to compare the prices of put and call options with various exercise prices and maturity dates on two...
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Keywords:
Options;
Option Contract;
Option Pricing;
Derivatives;
Mutual Funds;
Call Options;
Put Options;
Stock Options;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Volatility;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Kester, W. Carl. "The Galaxy Dividend Income Growth Fund's Option Investment Strategies." Harvard Business School Case 216-041, January 2016. (Revised April 2017.)
- 13 Jan 2003
- News
The Tax Cut That Could Pay Dividends
- 2007
- Working Paper
Taxes and Portfolio Choice: Evidence from JGTRRA's Treatment of International Dividends
By: Mihir A. Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala
This paper investigates how taxes influence portfolio choices by exploring the response to the distinctive treatment of foreign dividends in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (JGTRRA). JGTRRA lowered the dividend tax rate to 15% for American equities...
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- January 2024
- Case
Pioneer Natural Resources: Enhancing the Capital Return Strategy with Variable Dividends
In February 2021, Scott Sheffield, the CEO of Pioneer Natural Resources (an independent oil and gas company based in Texas), was considering the possibility of enhancing the firm’s capital return strategy by introducing a variable dividend tied to cash flows in...
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- January 1987
- Article
Dividend Behavior for the Aggregate Stock Market
By: Terry A. Marsh and Robert C. Merton
Marsh, Terry A., and Robert C. Merton. "Dividend Behavior for the Aggregate Stock Market." Journal of Business 60 (January 1987): 1–40.
- January 13, 2003
- Other Article
The Tax Cut That Could Pay Dividends
Keywords:
Strategy
Porter, Michael E. "The Tax Cut That Could Pay Dividends." FT.com (January 13, 2003).