In this paper we contribute to a line of literature that examines behavioral biases that impact important corporate decisions. Our paper builds on prior articles that examine heaping or rounding of EPS forecasts. Herrmann and Thomas (2005), Bamber, Hui and Yeung (2010) and Dechow and You (2012)...

We examine whether nominal stock price can help to explain the ex-dividend day anomaly. We find that stocks with lower nominal prices have ex-dividend day price drops that are more consistent with theoretical predictions based on an efficient market. After controlling for factors that have been...

Bali and Hite (1998) and Dubofsky (1992) propose models in which market microstructure effects play a role in the ex-dividend day price drop anomaly. Bali and Hite suggest that the anomaly is caused solely by price discreteness, while Dubofsky suggests that NYSE Rule 118 is also involved. We...

In a perfect capital market ex-dividend day share prices should fall by exactly the amount of the dividend. However, empirical evidence shows that stock prices drop by less than the dividend amount. The most popular explanations for this anomaly are tax or market microstructure related. We...