agency costs. Our results support the pre-commitment hypothesis. Dual-class firms have higher cash dividend payments and …

This paper focuses on dominant owners' use of leverage to finance their blockholdings and its relationship to dividend … following the crisis, dividend payouts increase in proportion to pyramidal debt of dominant owners. We inspect pyramidal …

This paper focuses on dominant owners' use of leverage to finance their blockholdings and its relationship to dividend … following the crisis, dividend payouts increase in proportion to pyramidal debt of dominant owners. We inspect pyramidal …

-owned enterprises (listed CSOEs) controlled by these parent CSOEs experience a significant reduction in dividend payouts. The reduction … in dividend payouts is concurrent with an increase in intra-group capital flows: listed CSOEs' loans to group peers and …

We find that minority shareholders’ voting opposition to dividend proposals is associated with significantly higher … cash dividend payout in the following year for stocks listed in Shanghai Stock Exchange. When minority shareholders’ voting … dividend payout. Minority shareholders’ voting opposition has a stronger positive effect on cash dividend payout when they post …