Firm performance: the moderation impact of debt and dividend policies on overinvestment

被引:20
作者
Nguyen Trong, Nghia [1 ]
Nguyen, Cong Thanh [2 ,3 ]
机构
[1] Vietnam Natl Univ Ho Chi Minh City VNU HCM, Univ Econ & Law, Sch Banking & Finance, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
[2] RMIT Int Univ, Dept Econ & Finance, Saigon South Campus, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
[3] Ho Chi Minh City Univ Technol, Sch Finance Commerce, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
关键词
Overinvestment; Debt policy; Dividend policy; Firm performance; Vietnamese listed companies; M31; G35; WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT; FREE CASH FLOW; AGENCY COSTS; FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS; INVESTMENT DECISIONS; OVER-INVESTMENT; SYSTEM GMM; BEHAVIOR; GROWTH;
D O I
10.1108/JABES-12-2019-0128
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
Purpose Debt, dividend and investment policy constitutes a company's important financial decisions to determine firm performance. The research emphasizes on the problem of overinvestment, a phenomenon that worsens firm operation. Furthermore, it clarifies the moderation role of debt and dividend policy in mitigating the negative effect of overinvestment on firm performance in the case of Vietnamese listed companies. Design/methodology/approach The research uses all financial statement of non-financial Vietnamese listed companies on Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi Stock Exchange in the period of 2008-2018. The data are collected from Thomson Reuters Eikon. The final data set is comprised of 669 listed companies. The study measures overinvestment though investment demand function and HP filter. Moreover, the research employs the dynamic model, so it has to apply the SGMM method to deal with the problem of endogeneity caused by the lagged dependent variable. Findings The research finds that overinvestment is negatively associated with firm performance. Debt or dividend policy separately can moderate the negative effect of overinvestment on firm performance. However, when these two policies are combined, they lessen the positive interaction impact of each policy due to the substitution between debt and dividend policy. Research limitations/implications The research may have two limitations. Firstly, the research measures overinvestment indirectly through investment demand function and HP filter. These two measures only help identify the sign that companies may have the problem of overinvestment because we cannot determine whether they overinvest or not in reality. Secondly, when using interaction variables, the problem of multicollinearity may be higher, and this may adjust the signs and significance level of variables in the models. Practical implications Practically, the research proposes three policy recommendations. Firstly, a company can exploit debt or dividend policy to limit excessive free cash flow in order to constrain the problem of overinvestment. Secondly, a company should enhance its corporate governance to resolve agency problems. Thirdly, the government should make the financial sector more transparent and effective to improve monitoring functions of various parties in the capital market. Social implications Overinvestment sometimes can cause social issues. Overinvestment means that companies make ineffective investment. If they continue this situation over a long time, companies may have financial distress or even go bankruptcy. As a result, it will slow down economic growth and increase unemployment in the economy. Originality/value The research is supposed to make two great contributions to the existing empirical studies in two aspects. Firstly, it is the first attempt to take into consideration the interaction between overinvestment and financial policies. Secondly, it helps enhance the fundamental stance of the agency theory, which supports the interdependence of debt, dividend and investment policy.
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