Assimetria de Informações e Pagamento de Proventos na Bovespa

Iquiapaza, Robert and Lamounier, Wagner and Amaral, Hudson (2006): Assimetria de Informações e Pagamento de Proventos na Bovespa.

Abstract

In this research it is evaluated the effect of the asymmetric information, the agency costs and the property structure in the determination of the dividend payments. The Tobit regression model was used for censured data, giving consistence to the estimates with the payout index truncated at zero. They were considered the statements of 178 open companies quoted at Bovespa, in the period of 2000-2004. It was verified that the probability of dividend payments increases with the growth possibilities, the size, the cash flow, the decrease of the company’s debt and the adhesion of the company to the governance levels. Companies with ADRs at NYSE, or with smaller asymmetric information, pay smaller dividends, what is in line with the signaling hypothesis. It was verified a negative relationship of the dividend payments with the growth opportunities and positive with the cash flow, as foreseen by the pecking order hypothesis. Lastly, after controlling by asymmetric information, the property concentration for the controller (insider) presented a negative relationship with the dividends policy.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Institution: Centro de Pós- Graduação e Pesquisas em Administração - CEPEAD
• English Title: Asymmetric Information and Dividends Payment at Bovespa
• Language: Portuguese
• Keywords: Dividends; asymmetric information; agency costs; property structure
• Subjects: G - Financial Economics > G3 - Corporate Finance and Governance

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