Ex Dividend Day Price And Volume PDF Download

Excerpt from Investors' Heterogeneity, Prices, and Volume Around the Ex-Dividend Day Our analysis shows that unless a perfect tax clientele exists, it is not possible to infer tax rates from price alone. [by a perfect tax clientele we mean that each tax group hold different securities, and all trading is intra-group trading. See Miller and Modigliani (1961) and Elton and Gruber However, the cross-sectional distribution of tax rates can be inferred by using both price and volume data. This point can be illustrated using the following stylized example. Assume that there are three groups of traders in the marketplace with a marginal rate of substitution between dividends and capital gains income of and respectively. Assume further that the average price drop relative to the dividend amount is Using the standard analysis, we may conclude that the second group dominates the ex-dividend day price determination. However. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.