上市公司股利政策中英文对照外文文献翻译
上市公司股利政策中英文对照
外文文献翻译
文献出处：Brunzell T, Liljeblom E, L?flund A, et al. Dividend policy in Nordic listed firms [J]. Global Finance Journal, 2014, 25(2): 124-135.
原文
Dividend policy in Nordic listed firms
Tor, Eva, Anders, Mika
Abstract
In this paper we analyze the results from a survey among all publicly listed Nordic firms on their dividend payout policy. The results show that 72% of the Nordic companies have a spec
ified dividend policy. Larger and more profitable companies are more likely to have a defined dividend policy in place. The dividend policy is mostly influenced by capital structure considerations and the outlook of future earnings. We also find that the likelihood for a firm having an explicit dividend policy is positively related to ownership concentration as well as to the presence of large long-term private or industrial owners. Our results support the use of defined dividend policies for agency or monitoring reasons rather than signaling reasons.
Keywords: Corporate finance; Dividend policy; Payout; NASDAQ OMX
Introduction
Ever since studies such as Lintner (1956) and Fama and Babiak (1968), a large number of papers have studied corporate dividend policies (payout ratios) and factors that contribute to the payout decision. Recently, focus has been on the choice between dividends and share repurchases (see for example Guay and Harford, 2000 and Jagannathan et al., 2000; and Skinner, 2008), the question of disappearing dividends (see for example DeAng
elo et al., 2004 and Fama and French, 2001), and the relationship between minority protection and dividends (see for example Faccio et al., 2001 and La Porta et al., 2000). Typically, the dividend payout is found to be a function of factors such as profitability of the company, stability of the earnings, rate of growth, free cash flows, and more recently, the governing structure of the company. In their survey of dividend policies, DeAngelo, DeAngelo and Skinner (2008) conclude that a simple asymmetric information framework does a good job at
explaining observed payout policies. This framework emphasizes the need to distribute free cash flow in the presence of agency costs and security valuation problems. They also conclude that other motives and factors such as signaling, tax preferences, and clientele demands have at best minor influences, but that behavioral biases at the managerial level (such as overconfidence) and the idiosyncratic preferences of controlling shareholders plausibly have a first order impact.
We contribute to the literature on studies of the relationship between controlling shareholde
rs and dividend decisions by studying the determinants of whether a firm follows a more explicit dividend policy. While implicit dividend policies (most commonly the relationship between dividends and earnings, and the speed of adjustment to an assumed optimal level) have been subject of many studies, only a few papers have studied whether a company has an explicit defined dividend
policy in place, and what factors are related to the choice of that policy (exceptions include Baker, Saadi, Dutta, & Gandhi, 2007; and Brav, Graham, Harvey, & Michaely, 2005).
There are many reasons for why the question of whether the firm follows a clearly defined dividend policy may be of interest. Firstly, it can be seen as an alternative approach to study whether signaling can be one of the motives for dividend distributions. Without expectations for future dividends, formulated by some systematic publicly announced dividend policy, deviations from such expectations cannot be identified and reacted upon. Thus, one could view a ?dividend policy?as a necessary but not sufficient condition for dividends to convey information about future earnings. Secondly, a systematic and defined
dividend policy may also be required by dominant corporate owners. The policy may solve agency problems between minority owners and large owners in firms with concentrated ownership (La Porta et al., 2000), and optimize taxation or satisfy large owners' preference for a more predictable dividend stream.
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Literature review and hypothesis development
There exists a vast literature on corporate dividend policy. The main determinants of a corporate dividend policy include tax optimizing, firm profitability
and earnings stability, signaling (of firm investment policy) and managerial or majority owner related agency costs. There are a number of papers that study which factors are considered by companies when setting their dividend policy. Early results indicate that taxes play a role if taxation on capital gains and dividends differ, but if they do not differ, taxation does not play a major role (Amihud & Murgia, 1997). In addition, the profitability of the company and the stability of its earnings play a major role in the dividend policy (see for example Barclay, Smith, & Watts, 1995 and Gaver & Gaver, 1993). Other significant factors
include, among others, company's (expected) growth rate and investment opportunities and signaling about the quality of the firm's investment potential (see for example Fama and French, 2001 and Michaely et al., 1996 and Myers & Majluf, 1984). Finally, La Porta, L ópez de Silanes, Shleifer, and Vishny (1998) observe that companies tend to pay higher dividends in countries where minority shareholders have greater protection.

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