在臺灣資產管理市場升溫及多元化發展下，近年來基金配息蔚為風潮。而配息是否真為投資人申購基金的決定性因素，投資人是否會滿足於配息收入進而影響其申購、贖回基金之投資行為，便成為值得進一步探討的問題。
本研究之目的為瞭解基金配息與否及配息率高低對投資人申購與買回基金之投資行為的影響，經實證研究得出下列結論：針對配息與否對基金流量之影響，研究結果顯示基金配息級別的好績效較吸引資金流入，而基金配息級別的負績效較不影響資金流入；而配息與否對資金流出為顯著負向影響，顯示投資人較不願買回配息級別。此外，針對配息率對基金流量之影響，研究結果則顯示12個月累積配息率對基金配息級別之資金流入為顯著正向影響，但配息率高低對基金配息級別資金流出雖亦為正向影響，但相對較不顯著，而配息基金的好績效合併高配息率會降低投資人買回額，配息基金若績效不佳但配息率高，則亦將減緩資金流出。
本研究亦發現各資料年度平均配息率前10%名之投信公司發行之基金配息率愈高，相較其他投信基金，更能吸引投資人申購，顯示品牌效應之存在，會讓配息率對資金流入的影響更大。而經探討投資人組成結構及臺灣所得稅制後，得出投信公司增發投資境外之基金配息級別，係符合有利於投資人需求及其稅負考量之結論。

This paper explores the influences on investor behavior of income distribution of Taiwan mutual funds. Our empirical results show that for fund distribution share classes and accumulative share classes, the good performance of distribution share classes attracts more inflows than that of accumulative share classes, and investors are more unwilling to sell distribution share classes. Furthermore, the 12-month accumulative distribution rate of income has positive impacts on both inflows and outflows, but the impacts on outflows are less significant. Besides, investors will sell less distribution share classes with good performance and high distribution rate; the outflows of distribution share classes with high distribution rate decrease though they have bad performance.
This paper also investigates the brand effect of high distribution rate of income. The results show that the impacts of distribution rate on inflows are stronger for those funds managed by the management companies with the highest average distribution rate. In addition, we discuss the investor structure and fund-associated tax laws in Taiwan. We find the investment management companies launch more fund distribution share classes that mainly invest abroad, which fit the needs of investors and their tax concerns.

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摘要 ii
Abstract iii
圖目錄 iv
表目錄 v
第一章 緒論 1
第一節 研究動機 1
第二節 研究目的 4
第三節 研究架構 6
第二章 文獻回顧 8
第一節 基金流量與以往績效之關係 8
第二節 基金流量與未來績效之關係 9
第三節 基金流量及配息對經理人行為之影響 10
第三章 樣本與研究方法 11
第一節 研究樣本及資料來源 11
第二節 變數定義 12
第四章 研究結果分析 16
第一節 配息與否對基金流量之影響 16
第二節 配息率高低對基金流量之影響 28
第五章 延伸討論 37
第一節 品牌效應 37
第二節 相關稅制探討 38
第六章 結論 41
參考文獻 45

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