CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND DIVIDEND PAYOUT POLICY: BEYOND COUNTRY-LEVEL GOVERNANCE

被引:13
作者
Chang, Bin [1 ]
Dutta, Shantanu [2 ]
Saadi, Samir [2 ]
Zhu, Pengcheng [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Ontario Inst Technol, Oshawa, ON, Canada
[2] Univ Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
[3] Univ San Diego, San Diego, CA 92110 USA
关键词
INTERNATIONAL EVIDENCE; SHARE REPURCHASES; AGENCY COSTS; LAW; COMPETITION; INVESTMENT; MATTERS;
D O I
10.1111/jfir.12159
中图分类号
F8 [财政、金融];
学科分类号
0202 ;
摘要
We address the mixed empirical findings on how corporate governance affects dividend payout policy by analyzing a large sample of firms from 30 countries. Our results indicate that firms with better firm-level governance pay more dividends, even after controlling for country-level governance. However, this relation is pronounced only in countries with low shareholder rights. In addition, we find that when the shareholder rights index is high, firm-level governance is unrelated to dividend payout in the full sample period. Finally, we show that in high-shareholder-rights countries, firm-level governance changes its role from before to after the 2008-2009 financial crisis.
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页码:445 / 484
页数:40
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