股利政策：一个综述[文献翻译]

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1、外文文献翻译一、外文原文原文：Dividendpolicy:areview1.IntroductionExplainingdividendpolicyhasbeenoneofthemostdifficultchallengesfacingfinancialeconomists.Despitedecadesofstudy,wehaveyettocompletelyunderstandthefactorsthatinfluencedividendpolicyandthemannerinwhichthesefactorsinteract.AllenandMichaely(1995)conclud

2、ethat‘‘muchmoreempiricalandtheoreticalresearchonthesubjectofdividendsisrequiredbeforeaconsensuscanbereached’’(p.833).ThefactthatamajortextbooksuchasBrealeyandMyers(2002)listsdividendsasoneofthetenimportantunsolvedproblemsinfinancereinforcesthisconclusion.Thefirstempiricalstudyofdividendpolicywaspr

3、ovidedbyLintner(1956),whosurveyedcorporatemanagerstounderstandhowtheyarrivedatthedividendpolicy.Lintnerfoundthatanexistingdividendrateformsabenchmarkforthemanagement.Companies’managementusuallydisplayedastrongreluctancetoreducedividends.Lintneropinedthatmanagersusuallyhavereasonablydefinitivetarge

4、tpayoutratios.Overtheyears,dividendsareincreasedslowlyataparticularspeedofadjustment,sothattheactualpayoutratiomovesclosertothetargetpayoutratio.2.DividendirrelevanceandtaxclientelesWhileLintner(1956)providedthestylisticdescriptionofdividends,thewatershedinthetheoreticalmodellingofdividendswasalmo

5、stsurelytheclassicpaperMillerandModigliani(1961),whichfirstproposeddividendirrelevance.Essentially,theirmodelisaone-periodmodelundercertainty.Givenafirm’sinvestmentprogram,thedividendpolicyofthefirmisirrelevanttothefirmvalue,sinceahigherdividendwouldnecessitatemoresaleofstocktoraisefinancesforthei

6、nvestmentprogram.Thecrucialassumptionhereisthatthefuturemarketvaluewillremainunaffectedbycurrentdividends.Theargumentrestsontheassumptionsthattheinvestmentprogramisdeterminedindependentlyandthateverystockholderearnsthesamereturn(i.e.thediscountrateremainsconstant).MillerandModigliani’sdividend-irr

7、elevanceargumentiselegant,butthisdoesnotexplainwhycompanies,thepublic,investmentanalystsaresointerestedindividendannouncements.Clearly,theobservedinterestindividendannouncementmustberelatedtosomeviolationoftheMil