A note on the timing of dividend receipts in share returns
South African Journal of Business Management
| Field | Value | |
| Title | A note on the timing of dividend receipts in share returns | |
| Creator | Van Rensburg, Paul Slaney, Kevin Hardy, Phillipe | |
| Description | Researchers in financial economics conventionally include dividend receipts as returns received on their date of payment. This article argues that this procedure misrepresents the economic timing of shareholder returns. A theoretical discussion of the ex-dividend effect and an empirical investigation of this phenomenon on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange are used to motivate the contention that researchers would be more correct to incorporate dividend receipts in share returns on their 'ex dividend' rather than payment dates. This argument has particular relevance for those financial researchers employing monthly share price data. A failure to make this adjustment generally results in four out of twelve observations of share returns being characterized by measurement errors (the payment date generally being in the month following the ex-dividend date). | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 1997-12-31 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/sajbm.v28i4.801 | |
| Source | South African Journal of Business Management; Vol 28, No 4 (1997); 169-173 2078-5976 2078-5585 | |
| Language | eng | |
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