Dividend Capture On The Ex-dividend Day: Evidence From Vietnamese Stock Market

Vietnamese stock market is a promising laboratory to investigate the ex-day behaviour of stock price due to its special features: Firstly, the market uses periodic call auction mechanism for determining both opening and closing prices and there is no market maker. Secondly, tick size is much smal...

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Main Author: Quoc , Trung Tran
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Published: Asian Academy of Management (AAM) 2017
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description Vietnamese stock market is a promising laboratory to investigate the ex-day behaviour of stock price due to its special features: Firstly, the market uses periodic call auction mechanism for determining both opening and closing prices and there is no market maker. Secondly, tick size is much smaller than dividend amount. These imply that market microstructure theories are not applicable explanations. Thirdly, unlike many markets’ taxation of capital gains and dividends, there is no considerably preferential treatment of capital gains to dividends. Finally, short-selling is prohibited. Comparing the observed values of price drop to dividend ratio and their expected values under the impact of tax policy, we fnd that tax treatment fails to explain the anomaly in the research framework. The research fndings show that abnormal returns are signifcantly positive and negative in the pre- and the post ex-dividend day periods, respectively. Moreover, regression results and relevant analysis show supporting evidence for dividend capture theory.
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spelling usm-401542018-04-20T08:54:33Z http://eprints.usm.my/40154/ Dividend Capture On The Ex-dividend Day: Evidence From Vietnamese Stock Market Quoc , Trung Tran HD28-70 Management. Industrial Management Vietnamese stock market is a promising laboratory to investigate the ex-day behaviour of stock price due to its special features: Firstly, the market uses periodic call auction mechanism for determining both opening and closing prices and there is no market maker. Secondly, tick size is much smaller than dividend amount. These imply that market microstructure theories are not applicable explanations. Thirdly, unlike many markets’ taxation of capital gains and dividends, there is no considerably preferential treatment of capital gains to dividends. Finally, short-selling is prohibited. Comparing the observed values of price drop to dividend ratio and their expected values under the impact of tax policy, we fnd that tax treatment fails to explain the anomaly in the research framework. The research fndings show that abnormal returns are signifcantly positive and negative in the pre- and the post ex-dividend day periods, respectively. Moreover, regression results and relevant analysis show supporting evidence for dividend capture theory. Asian Academy of Management (AAM) 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/40154/1/aamjaf13022017_4.pdf Quoc , Trung Tran (2017) Dividend Capture On The Ex-dividend Day: Evidence From Vietnamese Stock Market. Asian Academy of Management Journal of Accounting and Finance, 13 (2). pp. 1-26. ISSN 1823-4992 http://web.usm.my/journal/aamjaf/aamjaf13022017/aamjaf13022017_4.pdf
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Quoc , Trung Tran
Dividend Capture On The Ex-dividend Day: Evidence From Vietnamese Stock Market
title Dividend Capture On The Ex-dividend Day: Evidence From Vietnamese Stock Market
title_full Dividend Capture On The Ex-dividend Day: Evidence From Vietnamese Stock Market
title_fullStr Dividend Capture On The Ex-dividend Day: Evidence From Vietnamese Stock Market
title_full_unstemmed Dividend Capture On The Ex-dividend Day: Evidence From Vietnamese Stock Market
title_short Dividend Capture On The Ex-dividend Day: Evidence From Vietnamese Stock Market
title_sort dividend capture on the ex-dividend day: evidence from vietnamese stock market
topic HD28-70 Management. Industrial Management
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