We revisit the predictive ability of dividend changes for firms’ future earnings and extend the literature by examining the effect of management forecasting ability. Although prior studies have examined the relationship between dividend changes and future earnings, the empirical evidence is...

Following Demerjian, Lev, and McVay (2012), we quantify managerial ability using a sample of Japanese listed firms for the period 2005-2015. Consistent with Demerjian et al.'s findings, we find that the estimated managerial ability is strongly correlated with manager-fixed effects. Further, we...