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Does Corruption Matter On Corporate Payouts In The Covid Era?, Hasan Tekin
Does Corruption Matter On Corporate Payouts In The Covid Era?, Hasan Tekin
Bulletin of Monetary Economics and Banking
This article investigates how corruption (COR) and the COVID-19 (COV) pandemic affect corporate payout decisions. The sample contains 13,865 firm-years over 2012-2020 and 1,950 firms from 18 Muslim countries. Empirical findings show that neither COR nor COV drives dividends (DIV) and repurchases (REP). However, COV x COR negatively and significantly influences DIV. Namely, firms in highly corrupted Muslim countries have higher DIV during the pandemic–the picture changes in the COVID era. Particularly, firms in higher corrupt countries have higher DIV, which aligns with the substitute model of agency costs, but COR does not affect REP in the pandemic …