Outside Director Stock Options and Dividend Policy

Agency theory suggests that dividends can be used to mitigate agency problems between shareholders and managers. If director stock options are granted to align the interests of directors with shareholders, we anticipate that there will be less need for external governance mechanisms such as dividend...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Boumosleh, Anwar (author)
مؤلفون آخرون: Cline, Brandon N. (author)
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منشور في: 2015
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:http://hdl.handle.net/10725/3849
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10693-013-0174-2
http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10693-013-0174-2
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Boumosleh, A., & Cline, B. N. (2015). Outside director stock options and dividend policy. Journal of Financial Services Research, 47(3), 381-410.
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description Agency theory suggests that dividends can be used to mitigate agency problems between shareholders and managers. If director stock options are granted to align the interests of directors with shareholders, we anticipate that there will be less need for external governance mechanisms such as dividends. Examining the association between outside director stock options and dividend policy, we show that outside director option compensation indeed varies inversely with dividend distribution. This result suggests that incentivizing outside directors reduces the need for external market monitoring through dividends. Controlling for the sensitivity of options to changes in dividends, we illustrate that the lack of dividend protection for stock options is not a sufficient explanation for the reduction of dividends. We also show that while investment policy might dominate the decision to offer a dividend, director stock options play an important role in determining the level of dividend paid in firms that pay dividends.
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spelling Outside Director Stock Options and Dividend PolicyBoumosleh, AnwarCline, Brandon N.Agency theory suggests that dividends can be used to mitigate agency problems between shareholders and managers. If director stock options are granted to align the interests of directors with shareholders, we anticipate that there will be less need for external governance mechanisms such as dividends. Examining the association between outside director stock options and dividend policy, we show that outside director option compensation indeed varies inversely with dividend distribution. This result suggests that incentivizing outside directors reduces the need for external market monitoring through dividends. Controlling for the sensitivity of options to changes in dividends, we illustrate that the lack of dividend protection for stock options is not a sufficient explanation for the reduction of dividends. We also show that while investment policy might dominate the decision to offer a dividend, director stock options play an important role in determining the level of dividend paid in firms that pay dividends.PublishedN/A2016-05-19T11:21:32Z2016-05-19T11:21:32Z20152016-05-19Articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/article0920-8550http://hdl.handle.net/10725/3849http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10693-013-0174-2Boumosleh, A., & Cline, B. N. (2015). Outside director stock options and dividend policy. Journal of Financial Services Research, 47(3), 381-410.http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.phphttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10693-013-0174-2enJournal of Financial Services Researchinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:laur.lau.edu.lb:10725/38492021-03-19T09:10:05Z
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url http://hdl.handle.net/10725/3849
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10693-013-0174-2
http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10693-013-0174-2