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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788520103321

Autore

Lehmann Alexander

Titolo

International Dividend Repatriations / / Alexander Lehmann, Ashoka Mody

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2004

ISBN

1-4623-8542-7

1-4527-8865-0

1-281-11162-7

9786613776396

1-4518-9048-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (26 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

ModyAshoka

Soggetti

Dividends

International business enterprises

Stockholders

Investments, Foreign

Corporate Finance

Exports and Imports

Labor

Macroeconomics

International Investment

Long-term Capital Movements

Multinational Firms

International Business

Payout Policy

Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions

Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General

Labour

income economics

Finance

Multinationals

Personal income

Wages

Foreign direct investment

Transnational corporations

National accounts

Balance of payments

Economic sectors



Income

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Cover title.

"January 2004"--Caption.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 24-25).

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. DIVIDEND REPATRIATIONS IN THE 1990's""; ""III. ANALYTICAL BACKGROUND""; ""IV. RESULTS""; ""V. CONCLUSIONS""; ""APPENDIX""; ""REFERENCES""

Sommario/riassunto

Income earned by the branches and subsidiaries of multinational firms can be either reinvested in the host country or repatriated as dividends to the firms' headquarters. Despite the rapid growth of foreign direct investment in the 1990s, there has been relatively limited analysis of the dividend behavior of multinationals. We find that investors in multinationals from the two largest foreign- investing countries-the United Kingdom and the United States-require a steady flow of dividends, consistent with a view that such regular dividend payments are a mechanism through which to discipline host-country managers. In contrast, German investors, who tend to invest in riskier countries, do not appear to demand persistent dividend payments. Changes in income also influence dividends. This payout ratio from income appears, for example, to be lower for less risky countries. Finally, the evidence suggests that dividend payments do not necessarily aggravate the balance of payments position during crises.