Corporate Governance and Dividend Reinvestment Plans: Insights from Imputation Tax in Australia
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Tebourbi, Imen
Nourani, Mohammad
Min, Byung S
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This paper investigates the supply of Dividend Reinvestment Plans (DRPs) in relation to corporate governance and imputation tax system in Australia. Since DRPs are popular among large firms, we compiled the data of 300 largest companies listed on the Australian stock exchange (ASX300) during 2001-2013. Tobit regression method is used to estimate the models. Results indicate that good corporate governance leads to the higher supply of DRPs. We also found that franked dividend and heavily discounted DRPs weaken the positive association between governance and DRPs, illustrating the importance of institutional settings. Our findings imply that good corporate governance should consider a variety of clientele demands for dividend policy.
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Finance Research Letters
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41
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© 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License, which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
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Applied economics
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Dividend reinvestment plans
Corporate governance
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Shamsabadi, HA; Tebourbi, I; Nourani, M; Min, BS, Corporate Governance and Dividend Reinvestment Plans: Insights from Imputation Tax in Australia, Finance Research Letters, 2021, 41, pp. 101810