Corporate governance and dividend policy in Poland

This study examines the relation between corporate governance practices measured by Transparency Disclosure Index (TDI) and dividend policy in Poland. Our empirical approach, constructs measures of the quality of the corporate governance for 110 non-financial companies listed on Warsaw Stock Exchange between 1998 and 2004. We find evidence that an increase in the TDI or its subindices leads to an increase in the dividend-to-cash-flow ratio. These results support the hypothesis that companies with weak shareholder rights pay dividends less generously than do firms with high corporate governance standards. Therefore, minority shareholders often use power to extract dividends. We also find that large and more profitable companies have a higher dividend payout ratio, while riskier and more indebted firms prefer to pay lower dividends.

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Year of publication:	2007
Authors:	Kowalewski, Oskar ; Stetsyuk, Ivan ; Talavera, Oleksandr
Publisher:	Berlin : Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
Subject:	Corporate Governance \| Dividende \| Eigentümerstruktur \| Agency Theory \| Polen \| corporate governance \| dividend policy \| agency theory

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Series:	DIW Discussion Papers ; 702
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	550037020 [GVK] hdl:10419/27227 [Handle] RePEc:diw:diwwpp:dp702 [RePEc]
Classification:	G30 - Corporate Finance and Governance. General ; G32 - Financing Policy; Capital and Ownership Structure ; G35 - Payout Policy
Source:	EconStor