Impactos da restrição financeira e estrutura de propriedade no pagamento de juros sobre o capital prórpio

Abstract

This study aimed to find evidence of how financial constraints and ownership structure affect the payment of interest on capital. Therefore, it was used as a base, an unbalanced panel data with information from 399 non-financial companies with shares listed on the BM&F BOVESPA between 2000 and 2009, totaling 2139 observations. We tested different variables in different estimates for Probit and Tobit models. The criteria used for the classification of companies as restricted or unrestricted were: American Depositary Receipt (ADR), size and level of corporate governance. The results, carried out without considering the state of financial constraint, indicate that the payment of interest on equity is determined by profitability and profit reserves. Depreciation has a significant and positive sensitivity to the payment of interest on equity, showing that these tools are complementary in tax planning. And surprisingly, the payment of interest on equity is not influenced by the ownership structure. Next, in the estimates where the sample is classified according to the criteria of financial constraint (restricted or unrestricted), as predicted by theory, companies are more dependent of its profits to pay interest on equity. However, in proportion to earnings, restricted companies pay more interest on equity than unrestricted. Finally, the group of companies with the best corporate governance practices have significant and positive sensitivity to the payment of interest on equity, regardless of the legal nature of the recipient. Thus, this was the only group of companies in which the ownership structure had positive and significant relationship with the interest on equity payment. This study also presents a large contribution to studies that aims understand the interest on equity payment in Brazil, given its unprecedented nature of the application of the effects of financial constraints and ownership structure on the payment of interest on capital.