2012
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2084886
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Dividend Announcements Reconsidered: Dividend Changes Versus Dividend Surprises

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“…Treating all dividend changes as surprises does not account for the ability of market participants to incorporate information in stock prices when it first becomes available. Our results support the findings of Andres et al (2011) and strongly suggest the use of dividend surprises rather than dividend changes. Henceforth, we therefore use DIV ERR iy as a measure for dividend surprises and test our hypotheses for the classification of good news announcements.…”
Section: Dividend Announcements Effects and Market Expectationssupporting
confidence: 90%
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“…Treating all dividend changes as surprises does not account for the ability of market participants to incorporate information in stock prices when it first becomes available. Our results support the findings of Andres et al (2011) and strongly suggest the use of dividend surprises rather than dividend changes. Henceforth, we therefore use DIV ERR iy as a measure for dividend surprises and test our hypotheses for the classification of good news announcements.…”
Section: Dividend Announcements Effects and Market Expectationssupporting
confidence: 90%
“…Thus, with yearly dividend payments this naïve model may imply large forecast errors. Indeed, Andres et al (2011) show that share prices react to the surprise component of the announcement, not to the dividend change per se. We therefore use analysts' forecasts as proxy for market expectations.…”
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“…Indeed recent German evidence derived from a short window event study of dividend surprise suggests that dividends may convey price relevant information (Andres et al, 2013). Furthermore both Pope and Wang (2005) and Clubb (2013) suggest that accounting conservatism may drive a positive coefficient on dividends and taxation, agency and signalling explanations for dividend value relevance have been often postulated (Clubb and Walker, 2012).…”
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confidence: 99%