本文以2007年至2008年台灣上市公司為樣本,探討內部人持股、法人持股與負債比率等公司治理變數對企業發放現金股利的可能影響。本文初步的實證結果顯示:高法人持股與高內部人持股對於企業發放現金股利均有顯著的正面效果,顯示兩者對於公司治理卻有正面效益。而家族控制企業的法人持股比例與內部人持股比例對發放現金股利的影響明顯地小於非家族企業,可能的原因是台灣的上市公司中的家族控制企業存在著嚴重的核心代理問題,導致其對外現金股利發放的水準顯著地低於非家族控制企業,且高法人持股、高內部人持股等因素,對於提升其對外發放現金股利的效果亦較為有限。 此外,實證的結果亦顯示高負債比率對上市公司來說似乎沒有公司治理上的作用,只是使債務人面臨發放現金股利的限制,導致其現金股利率的水準明顯較低。
This paper investigates the influence of core agency problem within family-controlled firm on its dividend policy. We proposed and tested two competitive hypotheses: the self-disciplined hypothesis (family-controlled will pay higher dividend in order to reduce cost of external financing) and the agency-cost hypothesis (family shareholder will expropriate minority shareholders by paying less cash dividend). The empirical results show that cash dividend payout by family-control firms are significantly lower than that of non-family-controlled firms. The cash dividend payout of family-controlled firms will be further lower if small proportions of its shares were hold by insider or institution investors. All these results support the agency-cost hypothesis.