Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/197393 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Citation: 
[Journal:] e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly [ISSN:] 1734-039X [Volume:] 13 [Issue:] 4 [Publisher:] De Gruyter Open [Place:] Berlin [Year:] 2017 [Pages:] 76-88
Publisher: 
De Gruyter Open, Berlin
Abstract: 
The article analyses the impact of foreign investors, who were the majority shareholders of companies on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, on dividend policy of these companies in the years 2004-2014. An evaluation of the direction and strength of the influence of the analysed group of investors, using 2 models, was conducted applying logistic regression. The first - dividend payout policy based on the binary logit model - showed that along with a growing share of a foreign investor in a given company the probability of dividend payment by the company increased significantly. The second - dividend level change model based on the multinominal logit method - showed, however, that with an increasing share of foreign investors the probability that a given company will reduce the paid dividend level was enhanced significantly. Additionally, it should be stated that these results, irrespective of the model used, were to a very large extent in line with conclusions of the pecking order theory. However, in the case of signaling, free cash flow and maturity theories, these results only to a small extent provided evidence supporting these theories.
Subjects: 
ownership structure
dividends
foreign investors
payout policy
JEL: 
G32
G35
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Document Type: 
Article

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