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recent book²I have presented theory andevidence which lead to the conclusion that a corporation's shareprice(or its cost of capital)is not independent of the dividend rate.As you may know,MM(Modigliani and Miller)have the oppositeview,and they argued their position at some length in a recentpaper.³Moreover,the tone of their paper made it clear that theysaw no reasonable basis on which their conclusion could be ques-tioned.Since they were so sure of their conclusion,it would seemadvisable for me to review carefully my thinking on the subject,and this meeting appears to be a good time and place to do so.  \nI  \nLet us begin by examining MM’s fundamental proof that theprice of a share is independent of its dividend.They defined thevalue of a share at t=0 as the present value of(1)the dividend itwill pay at the end of the first period,D1,plus(2)the ex-dividendprice of the share at the end of the period,P1:  \n(1)  \nThey then asked what would happen if the corporation,say,raisedits dividend but kept its investment for the period constant byselling the additional number of shares needed to offset the funds  \n*This paper and the following papers by Ezra Solomon,James E.Walter,and JohnLintner,with discussions by Herbert Dougall,Merton Miller,and Robert F.Vandell,were presented at a meeting of the American Finance Association in Pittsburgh,Pa.,on December 29,1962.The program was under the chairmanship of J.Fred Weston.  \n+Professor of business economics,University of Rochester.  \n1.\"Dividends,Earnings and Stock Prices,\"Review of Economics and Statistics,May,1959,pp.99-105;“The Savings,Investment and Valuation of the Corporation,”ibid.,February,1962,pp.37-51.  \n2.The Investment Financing and Valuation of the Corporation(Homewood,IIl.:R.D.Irwin,1962).  \n3.\"Dividend Policy,Growth,and the Valuation of Shares,\"Journal of Business.October,1961,pp.411-33.  \n# Optimal Investment and Financing Policy\n\nlost by the dividend increase.They demonstrated that the ex-divi-dend price of the stock at the end of the period would go down byexactly the same amount as the increase in the dividend.Since thesum D₁+P₁remains the same,Po is unchanged by the change inthe dividend.  \nI will not review their proof of the theorem in detail because Ifind nothing wrong with it under the assumption they made that thefuture is certain.However,after proving the theorem a number oftimes under different conditions,they withdrew the assumption ofcertainty and made the dramatic announcement,\"our first step,alas,must be to jettison the fundamental valuation equation.\"Underuncertainty,they continued,it is not“at all clear what meaning canbe attached to the discount factor....”The implication which theymade explicit in discussing my work is that under uncertainty wecannot represent investors as using discount rates to arrive at thepresent value of an expectation of future receipts.  \nIt would seem that all is lost.But no!On the very next page weare told that their\"fundamental conclusion need not be modifiedmerely because of the presence of uncertainty about the futurecourse of profits,investment,or dividends....”By virtue of thepostulates of “imputed rationality”and\"symmetric market rational-ity,\"it remains true that“dividend policy is irrelevant for the de-termination of market prices.\"  \nTheir paper continued with a discussion of market imperfections,in which they note that the most important one,the capital gainstax,should create a preference for low payout rates.They concedethat it may nevertheless be true that high payout rates sell at apremium,but they found“...only one way to account for it,namelyas a result of systematic irrationality on the part of the investingpublic.”They concluded with the hope that“...investors,howevernaive they may be when they enter the market,do sometimes learnfrom experience;and perhaps,occasionally even from reading arti-cles such 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