基于股利变更公告的股利信号效应研究

本文根据上市公司发布的股利变更公告,提供了一个比之前文献利用年报研究股利市场反应更为干净的方法,研究上市公司股利发放的市场反应。本文进一步研究了各种股利发放变动与公司现金流、盈余之间的关系,从而对上市公司股利政策的信号传递效应进行检验。结果发现,我国上市公司的现金股利发放并没有信号传递效应;股票股利发放只是传递了关于公司当期净利润的信息,并没有传递关于公司未来盈余的信息。具体来说,市场对现金股利变更的反应不及对股票股利变更的反应敏感;同时发现,现金股利的变更与公司现金流、盈余之间并没有显著关系,而股票股利的变更则参考了当期净利润的表现。

Dividend Signaling Effect: From the View of Dividend Change Announcement

This paper tries to re-study dividend signaling effect from the view of dividend change announcement.In academia two explanations are widely accepted:signaling hypothesis and agency cost hypothesis.In China many scholars study why Chinese companies pay dividend,they find,except the above two explanations,there is a unique explanation that the cash dividend can be the channeling of controlling shareholder expropriate minority shareholder.However,most previous papers study the dividend based on accounting rep...