Table 7

Relationship between ownership and cash holding – dividend payout as an alternative measure of financial deficit

CASH1CASH2
POLSGMMPOLSGMM
DeficitSurplusAll firmsAll firmsDeficitSurplusAll firmsAll firms
(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)
L.CASH1   0.6905***    
   [0.0337]    
L.CASH2       0.5759***
       [0.0408]
FO0.1502***0.0372*0.0467**−0.00670.1765***0.0399**0.0473**0.0046
[0.0339][0.0215][0.0216][0.0091][0.0369][0.0193][0.0189][0.0105]
SO0.0407***0.01850.02320.0073*0.0451***0.01740.02100.0084*
[0.0104][0.0150][0.0154][0.0059][0.0115][0.0141][0.0143][0.0079]
deficit_dum2  −0.0320***−0.0070**  −0.0370***−0.0079**
  [0.0065][0.0029]  [0.0061][0.0038]
FO*deficit_dum2  0.0950***0.0315*  0.1216***0.0337*
  [0.0367][0.0164]  [0.0374][0.0192]
SO* deficit_dum2  0.01440.0016*  0.02150.0005*
  [0.0167][0.0069]  [0.0163][0.0091]
SIZE−0.0082***−0.0004−0.0052***0.0014***−0.0108***−0.0031−0.0079***0.0025***
[0.0020][0.0029][0.0018][0.0002][0.0022][0.0024][0.0018][0.0003]
GROWTH0.0029−0.0325***−0.0149***−0.0069***−0.0463***−0.0811***−0.0640***−0.0403***
[0.0070][0.0078][0.0053][0.0024][0.0051][0.0061][0.0044][0.0034]
PROFIT0.2059***0.2581***0.2211***0.1010***0.1383***0.1797***0.1463***0.1295***
[0.0423][0.0507][0.0334][0.0160][0.0346][0.0412][0.0275][0.0164]
TDA−0.1271***−0.2011***−0.1566***−0.0626***−0.1249***−0.1806***−0.1462***−0.0754***
[0.0142][0.0225][0.0141][0.0084][0.0138][0.0204][0.0135][0.0109]
Constant0.2927***0.1510*0.2630*** 0.4029***0.2664***0.3778*** 
[0.0550][0.0772][0.0509] [0.0594][0.0667][0.0495] 
N3,5983,2286,8266,7903,5983,2286,8266,218
R20.18180.18670.2007 0.21210.27040.2433 
AR2   0.2428   0.5367
Hansen   0.0579   0.1240

Note(s): The table presents the results of Equation (1) for two groups: deficit and surplus firms, and results with dummy variables for all firms. Standard errors are in parentheses. The superscripts *, ** and *** indicate significance at the 5, 1 and 0.1% levels, respectively

Source(s): Authors' own calculation

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