Accounting Seminar（2014-08）

Topic：What are the Reliably Important Determinants of Capital Structure in China?

Speaker: Guanmin Liao,Central University of Finance and Economics

Time:: Friday,16 May, 10:00-11:30am

Location:Room 217, Guanghua Building 2

Organizer:Department of Accounting,MPAcc GSM, PKU

Abstract：

Existing studies disagree over the basic determinants of capital structure in Chinese firms. We identify profitability, industry leverage, asset growth, tangibility, firm size, state control, and the largest shareholding as reliable core factors explaining book leverage. Compared with evidence from the United States and other countries, we identify three new core factors, and observe that the relative importance of four common core factors for Chinese firms is diverse. In particular, the state-control dummy is negatively associated with book leverage, contrary to findings in certain previous studies. Additional tests indicate that such a negative effect of state-control derives primarily from easier access to equity financing.

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