Three Essays on CEO Characteristics and Corporate Financing Decisions

Islam, Md. Ariful

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Authors

Islam, Md. Ariful

Date

2020

Supervisor

Nigar Sultana

Harj Singh

Imran Haider

Type

Thesis

Award

PhD

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Faculty

Business and Law

School

School of Accounting

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/82065

Collection

Curtin Theses

Abstract

This thesis examines the relationship between CEO characteristics, namely CEO power, CEO outsider, with corporate financing decisions, specifically corporate cash holdings and dividend policy. The study finds that powerful CEOs prefer higher cash holdings whereas outsider CEOs are initially interested in reducing cash holdings but such CEOs revert to increasing cash holdings to tunnel cash through dividend payouts. Finally, although powerful CEOs adopt dividend payment decision, such CEOs reduce the quantum of the actual dividend.