• The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.135-161
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• 2007

In this paper, we study empirically the dividend initiation decisions of IPO firms listed on Korea Securities Market and KOSDAQ Market. Specifically, we study three aspects of dividend initiation decision, (a) dividend initiation decision, (b) dividend level decision, (c) time-to-initiation decision. The main results of this study can be summarized as follows. First, determinants suggested by the major theories of dividends, namely, residual dividend, dividend signaling, agency, catering, and transactions cost theory explain significantly the dividend initiation decision. Second, determinants suggested by the major theories of dividends explain significantly the dividend level decision. So to speak, most of the findings for dividend initiation decision also hold for the dividend level decision. Third, most of the factors that increase(decrease) the probability of dividend initiation reduce(increase) the time-to-initiation. Almost of the dividend initiation firms start paying dividends within two years of the IPO. Thus, if IPO firm does not initiate dividend early in the life of the firm, then it is highly likely that it will never initiate dividend.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.19 no.8
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• pp.86-93
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• 2018

This study examines the differences in the determinants of dividend payout across advance disclosure firms and ordinary disclosure firms using firm-level data from firms listed on the Korea Exchange. Results are as follows: First, firm characteristics of advance disclosure firms significantly differ from those of ordinary disclosure firms in all variables except sales growth and operating risk variables. Second, regression results show that the determinants of dividend payout from ordinary disclosure firms are generally similar to results of previous studies. However, determinants of advance disclosure firms contain only few variables such as Tobin's Q, corporate bond yield, and operating cash flows from conventional factors. Third, logistic regression results show that factors affecting the probability of dividend payment substantially differ across advance disclosure firms and ordinary disclosure firms. These results suggest that the motivation and incentive of dividend payout from firms choosing advance disclosure are substantially and systematically different from those of ordinary disclosure firms.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Studies
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.257-280
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• 1994

합병의 절세효과는 배당소득의 자본이득화, 소유구조강화의 비용철강, 합병교부주식의 액면가액과시장가치의 차이에 의한 배당소득세의 회피 가능성 등으로 발생한다. 그러나 합병에 청산소득법인세, 사업년도법인세 및 증여세 등의 증세효과도 존재한다. 순절세효과는 당해 회사의 조세상 특성에 따라 달라진다. 합병회사가 피합병회사의 이월결손금과 조세공제.감면혜택을 승계받을 수 없다. 조세적 특성의 승계단절을 우회하기 위하여 신설합병보다는 흡수합병의 형태가, 순합병보다는 역합병의 방식이 선호된다. 합병에서 임의평가증(任意評價增)의 세금효과는 여러 가지 요소에 의하여 결정되는 데. 순절세효과가 양,수일 경우는 흔치 않을 것이다. 합병비율의 조절을 통하여 소유구조변경과 증여효과를 얻을 수 있다. 합병비율조절의 유인은 증여세, 청산법인세 및 배당소득세 등의 증세효과와 원천징수의무에 의하여 감소한다. 특히, 청산법인세와 배당소득세는 실행합병비율이 1:1이 되도록 하는 요인이다. 증여유인과 증세효과로 주주집단간의 이해관계대립이 초래될 수 있다 이해갈등의 예방장치 또는 조정제도의 효율성은 실행합병비율과 공정합병비율의 괴리를 축소하는 요인이 될 것이다.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.51-78
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• 1996

본 연구는 대리이론과 정보비대칭이론 그리고 패킹오더가설등을 기초로 재무정책의 결정요인과 상호의존관계를 규명하는데 그 목적을 두고 있다. 분석자료가 횡단면적 특성과 시계열적 특성을 동시에 갖고 있는 패널자료인 점을 감안하여 일반적인 OLS에 의한 회귀분석 대신에 동시적인 복합오차 모형과 일반화 최소자승법에 의한 회귀분석을 실시하였다. 자본조달정책 분석으로부터 배당비율과 내부자지분율이 재무레버리지에 각각 음(-) 및 양(+)의 영향을 주고 있음을 알 수 있었다.이외에도 경영위험, 수익성, 성장기회는 재무레버리지와 음(-)의 관계이며, 주식분산성과는 재무레버리지와 제한적으로 음(-)의 관계에 있었다. 그리고 기업규모와 경제적 부가가치는 재무레버리지와 양(+)의 영향을 주고 있음도 확인할 수 있었다. 배당정책 분석으로부터 재무레버리지는 대체로 그리고 내부자지분을은 제한적으로만 배당비율에 음(-)의 영향을 주고 있음을 확인하였다. 이외에도 경영위험과 수익성은 일관되게 배당비율과 양(+)의 관계를 갖고 있었다. 기업규모, 경제적 부가가치는 배당비율과 대체로 양(+)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 확인하였다. 성장기회는 제한적으로만 배당비율과 음(-)의 관계를 유지하고 있었다. 소유권구조 분석으로부터 재무레버리지는 내부자지분율에 대체로 양(+)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 확인하였다. 이외에도 기업규모, 경제적 부가가치 및 성장기회는 내부자지분율에 일관되게 음(-)의 관계를 갖고 있었다. 주식분산성과는 내부자지분율에 대체로 양(+)의 영향을 주고 있었다. 재무정책간의 상호의존성을 요약하면 다음과 같다. 내부자지분율과 배당비율은 재무레버리지에 각각 양(+)과 음(-)의 상호영향을 주고 있었으며, 내부자지분율은 배당비율에 제한적으로만 음(-)의 영향을 미치고 있다는 미약한 결과를 얻었다. 그러나 배당비율이 내부자지분율에 영향을 미친다는 증거는 확인할 수 없었다.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.179-213
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• 1999

본 연구에서는 국내 주식시장에서 주식수익률의 횡단면 차이에 유의적인 설명력을 가지는 것으로 나타난 기본적 변수가 시장지수 베타에서는 측정되지 않은 또 다른 가격화된 위험에 대해 유용한 대용변수인지를 규명하였다. 기본적 변수들 중에서 기업규모와 장부/시장가치 비율은 주식수익률의 횡단면 차이를 설명함에 있어 독립적인 효과를 갖는 가장 유의적인 변수였다. 주식수익률의 횡단면 차이에 매우 유의적인 설명력을 가지는 깃으로 나타난 거시경제요인의 요인민감도는 기업규모, 장부/시장가치 비율을 포함시 더 이상 유의적인 설명력을 가지지 못하였다. 소규모, 높은 장부/시장가치 기업은 매우 지속적인 수익성 악화를 겪고 있는 곤경기업이며, 역시 배당감소위험, 레버리지위험 및 미래 현금흐름의 불확실성으로 측정된 기업특성적 위험이 보다 큰 곤경기업이었다. 따라서 이러한 실증결과는 소규모, 높은 장부/시장가치 주식이 대규모, 낮은 장부/시장가치 주식에 비해 높은 수익률을 보이는 원인이 보다 높은 위험에 따른 보상의 결과이며, 규모변수와 장부/시장 가치 비율은 이들 위험에 대한 유용한 대용치라는 '위험에 기초한 가설'을 지지하는 증거로 주장될 수 있다. 기업규모와 장부/시장가치 비율이 시장베타로는 측정되지 않는 주식가격결정에 있어 가격화 된 또 다른 위험을 대리한다면 수익률에 나타난 SIZE, B/M효과는 합리적 가격결정하 APT나 ICAPM과 같은 확장된 CAPM과 모순되지 않는 하나의 증거로 볼 수 있으며, 비록 이들 변수들이 관찰 불가능한 진정한 시장베타에 대한 보다 나은 대용치라고 할지라도 이들 두 변수와 관련된 요인을 포함한 다요인 가격결정모델이 시장지수만을 포함한 단일요인모델에 비해 보다 유용한 모형임을 기대할 수 있다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.19 no.8
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• pp.141-149
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• 2021

This study investigated the effect of accounting information on dividend policy as a measure of corporate conservatism from the perspective of the internal accounting management system. The verification is based on a sample of 543 companies listed on securities (excluding KOSDAQ and financial industry) among the Bank of Korea (2019) 「2018 Corporate Management Analysis」 and company analysis of the Korea Productivity Center (financial data disclosed as listed companies as a December settlement company) was composed. Using SPSS 22, empirical analysis was conducted using exploratory factor analysis and regression analysis. The first is the verification related to corporate conservatism and the role of dividend policy, and it is verification of whether internal accounting management influences financial decision-making. Second, if internal accounting management exists, it is a verification of how conservatism and investment policies (in-house reserve, debt borrowing, capital increase, dividends, etc.) affect the corporate value according to accounting information. As a result, from the perspective of the internal accounting management system, it was found that among the variables of accounting information, profitability can have a positive effect on corporate conservatism and dividend policy as a corporate valuation method of reinvestment. In addition, it has been proven that corporate conservatism has an effect on profitability-to-value through capital accumulation and reinvestment such as surplus and internal reserves. In the future, we will study and discuss the complementarity of corporate conservatism and dividend policy in relation to governance structure and improvement of the internal accounting management system.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.41-72
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• 2003

The purposes of this paper are to build theoretical and empirically testable model to identify determining factors of ownership structure, and to analyze this model empirically using th Korea Stock Exchange panel data, and to test the impact of opening the stock market on the determinants of ownership structure. The determining factors of ownership structure identified in this paper include debt ratio, dividend, asset characteristics, profitability, growth business risk, size, institutional investors and chaebol-non chaebol dummy variable. Empirical panel estimation test reveals that this model can explain about $9\sim11%$ of the cross sectional variance in the equity ratio of large shareholders. The reasons that this model has too explanatory power are that some variables were measured with errors, and that there were some omitted variables in tested model. The regression results on the model variables ar generally in line with predictions. But the coefficient estimates on size is never significant. And it appears that the exogenous variable which explains opening the stock market has positive effect on the determinants of ownership structure.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.133-144
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• 2017

This study investigates firm-specific financial variables that determine investment or speculative grades from the viewpoint of firms, which are one of the major stakeholders related to the credit rating. We employ an ordered probit model for our analysis with the sample data from 1999 to 2015 for listed firms in the Korean stock markets. For investment grades, operating margin, sales, market-to-book, dividend payment, capital expenditure ratio, and tangible asset ratio have a significantly positive impact on credit ratings. In the subsample for speculative grades, the coefficients of the dividend payment, retained earnings ratio, and capital expenditure ratio are significantly positive while short-term debt ratio and R&D expenditures have a significantly negative impact on credit ratings. For the analysis before and after 2009, when the Credit Information Use and Protection Act was strengthened after the global financial crisis, the coefficients of the capital expenditure ratio, cash ratio, and tangible asset ratio are significantly positive in the subsample for investment grades before 2009, but not significant after 2010. The coefficient of the long-term debt ratio is more significantly negative than that of the short-term debt ratio before 2009, for speculative grades, but short-term debt ratio has a more negative effect on ratings than long-term debt ratio after 2010. Surprisingly, the coefficient of the R&D expenditures is significantly negative in both investment and speculative grades since 2010. Our findings are inconsistent with the conjecture that the increase in R&D expenditures enhances the possibility of creating cash-flow by raising the investment growth opportunity, and thus affects positively the credit rating.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.1654-1662
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• 2011

This paper investigates how does cash holdings have effect on investment-cash flow sensitivity in korea firms over the period 1981-2009. According to $\"{O}$.Arslan et al.(2006), I expect that financially constrained firms have more cash holdings. and financially constrained cash-rich firms are likely to have less investment-cash flow sensitivity especially in the financial crisis period. Using financial constraint classification variables(firm size, dividend, cash holdings), we divide whole sample firms into financially constrained firms and financially unconstrained firms, and then I compare investment-cash flow sensitivity in pre-financial crisis(1981-1996), financial crisis(1997-1998) and after-financial crisis(1999-2009) period. This paper's findings are as follows: First, under no financial constraint classification conditions, cash-poor firms exhibit greater investment-cash flow sensitivity than cash-rich firms do during 1981-2009 period except financial crisis period. These findings support the hypothesis that firms have more cash holdings less investment-cash flow sensitivity except in financial crisis period. In financial crisis period, cash holdings have no effect on investment-cash flow sensitivity. Second, this paper findings are somewhat different as $\"{O}$.Arslan et al.(2006)'s. Under the financial constraint classification conditions, financially unconstrained firms have more investment-cash flow sensitivity rather than constrained firms have. The reason is that both dividend and firm size are not a complete classification criteria variables. And there exists other possible determinants of investment-cash flow sensitivity. Finally, this paper find that there are common determinants of corporate cash holdings in all periods. This paper suggests that cash flow and market to book ratio are positive determinants of corporate cash holdings but short-term debt, investment and firm size are negative determinants of corporate cash holdings.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.729-739
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• 2016

The primary objective of implementing the study was to further investigate any pronounced financial components affecting the level of cash retention for the Korean chaebol firms. The research was framed to test for two hypotheses on the cash savings with utilizing the chaebol firms during the post-era of the global financial turmoil (from 2009 to 2013). In the first hypothesis test, any significant explanatory variables relative to the cash holdings, were identified in each corresponding category of the conditional quantile regression (CQR) model, while multilogistic regression analysis was performed to discriminate relevant financial factors in each pair of classes consisting of the chaebol firms. Concerning the results, liquidity, agency costs, and cash conversion cycle were found to be statistically significant in the majority of classified categories in the former test and liquidy, firm size, and dividend yield, also showed discriminating powers in each pair of categorical for the firms in the latter test.