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The impact of liquidity constraints on investment expenditures: Evidences from family and non-family firms

유동성 제약이 투자지출에 미치는 영향: 가족기업과 비가족기업의 실증 비교

  • Received : 2012.11.16
  • Accepted : 2013.02.06
  • Published : 2013.02.28

Abstract

This paper investigates the impact of liquidity constraints on investment expenditures of family and non-family firms. We analyze the ownership structure of family firms to determine whether family control alleviates or exacerbates investment-cash flow sensitivity in domestic firms. To examine the impact of liquidity constraints on investment expenditures of family and non-family firms, we used a financial data of 644 Korea Exchange traded companies over the 2000 - 2010 period. We estimated a time-series and cross-sectional regression model, using samples of family firms and non-family firms. The results show that cash flow is not associated with investment expenditure in family firms, whereas cash flow has a positive impact on investment in non-family firms. Our results show that lower or no investment-cash flow sensitivities in family-controlled firms are mainly attributable to lower agency costs through strong monitoring activities of family members. Higher investment-cash flow sensitivities are observed in non-family firms with more agency problems. This suggests that investment-cash flow sensitivities would be useful measures of liquidity constraints.

본 연구는 유동성 제약이 가족기업과 비가족기업의 투자 지출에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지에 대해 실증분석 하였다. 가족기업은 위험회피성향이 크고 기업의 성과와 명성을 중시하여 대리인 비용이 적을 것으로 예상되어 현금흐름이나 유동성 제약이 투자에 미치는 영향이 작을 것으로 기대 되었다. 유동성 제약이 기업 투자지출에 가족기업과 비가족기업이라는 지배구조 형태 별로 어떻게 달리 영향을 미치는가를 분석하기 위하여, 644 개의 한국거래소 상장기업에 대하여 2000년부터 2010년 까지 기업 재무 테이터를 사용하여 시계열 횡단면 회귀분석을 실시하였다. 분석결과, 가족기업에서 현금흐름변수는 투자지출에 영향을 미치지 못한 반면, 비가족기업에서는 현금흐름 변수가 매우 민감하게 양의 영향을 주고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 현금흐름이 감소하여 유동성 제약에 직면하면 대리인 문제가 큰 비가족기업의 경우 투자는 크게 감소하나, 대리인 문제가 크지 않은 가족기업에서는 투자지출이 유동성 제약에 영향을 받지 않는다는 것을 시사한다. 이러한 연구로부터의 의의는 현금흐름에 대한 투자의 민감도가 기업의 유동성 제약 여부를 나타내는 유용한 지표가 될 수 있다는 점이다.

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