Ex-Day Price Behaviour, Market Microstructure and Settlement Costs |
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Authors: | Ioannis Asimakopoulos Lynn Hodgkinson |
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Abstract: | It is well documented that share prices on ex-dividend days drop by less than the value of the dividends paid. However, the explanations offered to date remain inconclusive. This study examines the behaviour of share prices on ex-dividend days using data from the UK after the introduction of the 1988 Income and Corporation Taxes Act. Following 10] we sub-divide the data conditional on the size of the dividend paid. We find that for the large dividend sub-sample, when the impact of market micro-structure is taken into account, the ex-dividend price drop is not significantly different to the value of the dividend paid. |
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