A Panel-Based Investigation into the Relationship Between Stock Prices and Dividends

This paper investigates the presence of cointegration between stock prices and dividends for a panel of 56 large UK companies. Using new techniques which account for integrated processes in a panel context we demonstrate that stock prices and dividends are cointegrated, with an implied common discount rate of 5.8%.

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