AN INDIRECT TEST FOR DIVIDEND RELEVANCE

Mazhar A. Siddiqi

Journal of Financial Research, 1995, vol. 18, issue 1, 89-101

Abstract: This paper provides an indirect test of dividend relevance conducted in periods that straddle the tax law changes effected by the Tax Reform Act of 1986. Using the abnormal ex‐dividend day return to proxy for the tax penalty of dividends, I find a negative relation between changes in this tax penalty and changes in dividends paid. This result is consistent with corporations' equating, at the margin, the costs of dividend payout to its benefits. Hence, this is indirect evidence of dividend relevance.

Date: 1995
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