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Managerial Power, Cash Dividend Policy and Value Effect

Zhang Chunlong, Zhang Guoliang   

  1. School of Business Administration, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024
  • Received:2016-04-25 Online:2017-03-28 Published:2017-03-30

Abstract: Cash Dividend Policy is always a hot issue for academic researchers, but most of them analyze the motivations of cash dividends from the view point of agency theory and few researchers emphasize the managerial power, which is the approach to realize the motivations of cash dividends. Based on the fact of the low cash dividends in China's capital market, this paper analyzes the relationship between managerial power and cash dividend policy, and its value effect. It reveals that managerial power has a great effect on the cash dividend policy. With the increase of the managerial power, the inclination and level of cash dividends gets much weaker, the marginal value of cash dividends gets lower.

Key words: managerial power, cash dividend policy, value effect