Do Price Discreteness and Transactions Costs Affect Stock Returns? Comparing Ex-Dividend Pricing Before and After Decimalization
Preprint
- 1 January 2002
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
- Vol. 58 (6) , 2611-2636
- https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.318483
Abstract
By the end of January 2001, all NYSE stocks had converted their price quotations from 1/8ths and 1/16ths to decimals. This study examines the effect of this change in price quotations on ex-dividend day activity. We find that abnormal ex-dividend day returns increase in the 1/16th and decimal pricing eras, relative to the 1/8thera, which is inconsistent with microstructure explanations of the ex-day price movements. We also find that abnormal returns increase in conjunction with a May 1997 reduction in the capital gains tax rate, as they should if relative taxation of dividends and capital gains affects ex-day pricing.Keywords
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