Ultimate Controlling Shareholders and Dividend Payout Policy in Chinese Stock Market

April 16, 2013 Leave a comment

Ultimate Controlling Shareholders and Dividend Payout Policy in Chinese Stock Market

Jianan Guo School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Deakin University

April 1, 2013

Abstract: 
Departing from the traditional cash flow rights-dividend policy framework, this study investigates whether the level of control rights and the types of control of the ultimate controlling shareholders (UCSs) of listed firms in China influence their cash dividend policy. We find that the level of control rights is positively associated with both the propensity to pay and the level of cash dividend payout, which indicates that the ultimate controlling shareholders are likely to use cash dividends to redirect financial resources from the firms as other channels of tunnelling are blocked by Chinese security regulatory body. Furthermore, different types of ultimate controllers exert dissimilar influences on the controlled firms’ cash dividend policy. The difference might stem from the historical nature of these ultimate controlling shareholders originating from China’s unique partial share issuance privatization process.

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