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Aswath Damodaran Session 24 (Undergraduate): The Trade off on Dividends

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Aswath Damodaran Session 24 (Undergraduate): The Trade off on Dividends

Published on Apr 25, 2016

We spent all of the session setting up the trade off on dividends, starting with the argument that Miller/Modigliani made that dividends don’t matter (in a world where investors are taxed at the same rate on dividends & capital gains & stock issuance is costless) to the dividends are bad school (built on the almost century long higher tax on dividends) to the dividends are good school.
Slides: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/po…
Post class test: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/pd…
Post class test solution: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/pd…

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