<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This study investigates the informational effect of stock liquidity on dividend payouts. Using a sample of Polish listed companies during 2000 - 2012, I do not find a relation between stock liquidity and dividend payouts. This result is robust to the use of alternative measures of liquidity, and holds after we control for endogeneity concerns. In accord with my hypothesis that stock liquidity provides information and increases insiders’ incentive to pay out dividends, I do not find that the relation between stock liquidity and dividend payouts is more pronounced when the information environment is opaque, and when conflict between controlling shareholders and minority investors is severe.</p><p>The aim of this study is to show the dependencies occurring between dividend policy and the liquidity of shares of a company. The basic thesis of this study is that decisions on dividend payments positively affect the liquidity of the shares of a company.</p></abstract>

This study investigates the informational effect of stock liquidity on dividend payouts. Using a sample of Polish listed companies during 2000 - 2012, I do not find a relation between stock liquidity and dividend payouts. This result is robust to the use of alternative measures of liquidity, and holds after we control for endogeneity concerns. In accord with my hypothesis that stock liquidity provides information and increases insiders’ incentive to pay out dividends, I do not find that the relation between stock liquidity and dividend payouts is more pronounced when the information environment is opaque, and when conflict between controlling shareholders and minority investors is severe.The aim of this study is to show the dependencies occurring between dividend policy and the liquidity of shares of a company. The basic thesis of this study is that decisions on dividend payments positively affect the liquidity of the shares of a company.

Impact of a Company’s Dividend Policy on the Liquidity of Shares Listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange

Faculty of Economics and Sociology, Department of Economics of Industry and Capital Markets

Financial Internet Quarterly

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This study investigates the informational effect of stock liquidity on dividend payouts. Using a sample of Polish listed companies during 2000 - 2012, I do not...

Impact of a Company’s Dividend Policy on the Liquidity of Shares Listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange

Published Online: Jul 25, 2018

Page range: 24 - 32

Received: May 31, 2016

Accepted: Sep 29, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/fiqf-2016-0027

Keywords
dividend policy, liquidity of shares, Agency Costs

© 2017 Agata Gniadkowska-Szymańska, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Impact of a Company’s Dividend Policy on the Liquidity of Shares Listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange

Published Online: Jul 25, 2018

Page range: 24 - 32

Received: May 31, 2016

Accepted: Sep 29, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/fiqf-2016-0027

Keywordsdividend policy, liquidity of shares, Agency Costs

© 2017 Agata Gniadkowska-Szymańska, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
dividend policy, liquidity of shares, Agency Costs