Abstract

This paper examines the reaction of prices on the New Zealand Stock Exchange to the announcement of two classes of capitalisation change: bonus issues and rights issues. The reaction is rapid and unbiased. Capitalisation changes are almost always accompanied by effective dividend increases, which can be interpreted as proxies for relevant parameters of firms' probability distributions of future cash flows. The evidence is consistent with capital market efficiency.

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