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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... View Details
Keywords: Distribution; Business Earnings; Change; Policy; Stocks; Investment Return; Performance Consistency; Quality
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  • 07 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

neglected classic, because the book is not a classic. Instead, Business Cycles is a noble failure that paid unexpected dividends both to the author and to scholarship. A link to the full version of this article from Business History... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Is Love Blind? AI-Powered Trading with Emotional Dividends

By: De-Rong Kong and Daniel Rabetti
We leverage the non-fungible tokens (NFTs) setting to assess the valuation of emotional dividends (LOVE), a long-standing empirical challenge in private-value markets such as art, antiques, and collectibles. Having created and validated our proxy, we use deep learning... View Details
Keywords: NFTs; Non-fungible Tokens; AI and Machine Learning; Valuation; Financial Markets
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  • January 1990
  • Article

Effectiveness of Accounting-Based Dividend Covenants

By: Paul M. Healy and Krishna G. Palepu
Keywords: Accounting; Money
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  • May 1993 (Revised October 1993)
  • Case

Wesfarmers Limited.: The Dividend Decision

By: Dwight B. Crane
Keywords: Stocks; Decision Making
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  • Article

How Bigger Dividends Build Trust

By: Joseph B. Fuller
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  • 20 Mar 2012
  • News

Flush With Cash, Apple Plans Buyback and Dividend

  • February 2004 (Revised February 2004)
  • Supplement

Dividend Policy at Linear Technology

By: Malcolm P. Baker
Spreadsheet to (9-204-066). Download only. View Details
Keywords: Stocks; Technology Industry
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  • December 2001
  • Article

Repatriation Taxes and Dividend Distortions

By: Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James R. Hines Jr.
Keywords: Taxation; Profit
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  • August 2008
  • Supplement

Progressive Corporation: Variable Dividends (CW)

By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Brenda W. Chia
Keywords: Insurance Industry
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  • February 1996 (Revised November 1998)
  • Case

Brown Group, Inc.--The Dividend Decision

By: Joseph L. Bower
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Restructuring; Investment Return
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  • October 2003
  • Teaching Note

Dividend Policy at Linear Technology (TN)

By: Malcolm P. Baker
Teaching Note to (9-204-066). View Details
Keywords: Semiconductor Industry
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  • 30 Oct 2008
  • News

Banks to Continue Paying Dividends

  • 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
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  • Article

Dividend Policy inside the Multinational Firm

By: Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James R. Hines Jr.
Keywords: Profit; Policy; Business Ventures
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  • 13 Jan 2003
  • News

The Tax Cut That Could Pay Dividends

  • January 2024 (Revised May 2024)
  • Case

Pioneer Natural Resources: Enhancing the Capital Return Strategy with Variable Dividends

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Elisabeth Kempf and E. Scott Mayfield
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... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Finance; Cash Flow; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Value Creation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment Return; Profit; Policy; Business and Shareholder Relations; Energy Industry; United States; North America; Texas
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  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Options; Option Contract; Option Pricing; Derivatives; Mutual Funds; Call Options; Put Options; Stock Options; Risk and Uncertainty; Volatility; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Equity; Financial Markets; International Finance; Investment Portfolio; Government Legislation; Taxation; United States
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    Retail Investors’ Contrarian Behavior Around News, Attention, and the Momentum Effect

    Abstract
    Using a large panel of U.S. brokerage accounts trades and positions, we show that a large fraction of retail investors trade as contrarians after large earnings surprises, especially for loser stocks, and that such contrarian trading... View Details