Corporate risk management and dividend signaling theory

Georges Dionne () and Karima Ouederni ()
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Karima Ouederni: HEC Montreal, Canada Research Chair in Risk Management

No 10-1, Working Papers from HEC Montreal, Canada Research Chair in Risk Management

Abstract: This paper investigates the effect of corporate risk management on dividend policy. We extend the signaling framework of Bhattacharya (1979) by including the possibility of hedging the future cash flow. We find that the higher the hedging level, the lower the incremental dividend. This result is in line with the purported positive relation between information asymmetry and dividend policy (e.g., Miller and Rock, 1985) and the assertion that risk management alleviates the information asymmetry problem (e.g., DaDalt et al., 2002). Our theoretical model has testable implications.

Keywords: Signaling theory; dividend policy; risk management policy; corporate hedging; information asymmetry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D82 G32 G35 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 9 pages
Date: 2010-01-27
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