• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권11호
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• pp.835-842
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• 2020

The study aims to investigate the impact of debt on corporate profitability in the context of Vietnam. The paper investigates the impact of debt on corporate profitability in non-finance listed companies on the Vietnam stock market. The panel data of the research sample includes 118 non-financial listed companies on the Vietnam stock market for a period of nine years, from 2009 to 2017. The Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) is employed to address econometric issues and to improve the accuracy of the regression coefficients. In this research, corporate profitability is measured as the return of EBIT on total assets. The debt ratio is a ratio that indicates the proportion of a company's debt to its total assets. Firm sizes, tangible assets, growth rate, and taxes are control variables in the study. The empirical results show that debt has a statistically significant negative effect on corporate profitability. The result also shows this effect is stronger in a non-linear (concave) way, we show that the debt ratio has nonlinear effects on corporate profitability. From this, experimental evidence shows that the optimal debt ratio is 38.87%. This evidence provides a new insight to managers of the non-finance companies on how to improve the firm's profitability with debt.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권9호
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• pp.283-291
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• 2020

Although the corporate governance plays a crucial role in protecting shareholder wealth, the effect of corporate governance on cost of debt is unclear. On one hand, the corporate governance reduces asymmetric information between corporate and external investor including debtholder leading to a decreasing in cost of debt financing. On the other hand, bondholders require higher rate of return for an improvement corporate governance. Hence, this study aims to investigate the relationship between the mechanism to improve corporate governance namely board effectiveness and the cost of debt in an emerging market. As we aim to explore the relationship between cost of debt and board effectiveness, we select corporation in Thailand as our sample because the businesses in Thailand are major debt-financing. Hence, our sample include listed firm in Stock Exchange of Thailand between 2007 and 2016. Our main findings support the sub-optimal investment hypothesis in that improved board effectiveness is associated with higher cost of borrowing. In addition, we find that the number of board member-board size, the number of board meeting, and the percentage of non-executive on audit committee play are positively associated with the cost of debt financing. Furthermore, we perform two-stage-least square (2SLS) to ensure that our results are far from endogeneity issue.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.290-295
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• 2021

본 연구는 기업 대출금리, 기업 차입금 평균이자율 등 기업 이자비용과 기업 부채 재원조달과의 관계를 분석하였다. 또한 기업 이자비용과 기업 부채 재원조달의 관계가 2008년 금융위기를 전후하여 차이가 발생하는지도 분석하였다. 일반적 예상과 달리 기업 이자비용과 기업 부채 재원조달의 관계에서 음의 관계는 발견되지 않았다. 2008년 금융위기 전후로 구분한 분석에서는, 2008년 금융위기 이전 기간에는 기업 이자비용과 부채 재원조달에서 음의 관계를 보였으나, 2008년 금융위기 이후 기간에서는 기업 이자 비용과 부채 재원조달 간에 양의 관계가 발견되었다. 우리나라에서 기업이자비용 상승 등이 기업 부채재원조달 감소에 미치는 영향은 크지 않은 것으로 추정되는 데, 이는 2008년 글로벌 금융위기 이후 저금리 기조에 따른 기업 이자비용 감소에도 불구하고 기업의 부채 재원조달이 오히려 감소한 데 기인한 것으로 보인다. 추가 분석으로 기업의 사채 발행을 통한 부채 재원조달과 기업 이자비용과의 관계에서도 유사한 결과를 보였다. 저금리 기조에 따른 기업 이자비용 감소가 직접금융 시장을 통한 회사채 발생 증가에도 큰 영향을 미치지 못한 것으로 보인다. 이는 금리인하 정책 등 저금리 기조가 기업 투자부진 등 재원조달 수요를 촉진하는 데 큰 영향을 미치지 못한 데 기인한 것으로 추정된다.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권11호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2020

This study aims to investigate whether Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) performance can help companies gain more bank unsecured loans. Additionally, this study analyzes the moderating effect of firm size and industry characteristics. Data was collected through the case of companies listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange or the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in China between 2009 and 2018 with 5373 firm-year observations. The results of multivariable regression analysis show that good CSR performance exhibits a strong positive impact on unsecured debt, including short-term, long-term, and total unsecured debt, which indicates that corporate with good CSR performance can borrow more unsecured debt. further research shows that this effect is more pronounced for small enterprises and firms operating in heavy-polluting industries. Additionally, research on the impact mechanism finds that good CSR performance can help mitigate information asymmetry between borrower and lender, reduce moral hazard of borrower, and obtain support from key stakeholders, and therefore reduces the risk of default. The findings of this study suggest that firms with good CSR performance exhibit a preference for unsecured debt, but decline to provide collateral for debt. Overall, we emphasize and illustrate the important role of corporate CSR in bank credit financing.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.551-559
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• 2021

The maturity structure of corporate debt is one of the significant financing choices that a firm must make simultaneously while deciding how to finance its operational and investment decisions. Even though the capital structure is one of the scrutinized topics of interest in the corporate finance literature, scarce studies have investigated corporate debt maturity, even less so in the context of emerging markets. The choice of a suitable debt maturity structure is exceptionally relevant for firms. It can enable them to avoid mismatch by aligning assets in line with liabilities, addressing agency-related problems, sidestep the ill effects of cost of capital, and signaling the firms' earning quality and value. The study investigates the firm-specific and macroeconomic determinants significant for the debt maturity structure of Vietnamese corporate firms. A sample of 722 non-financial firms listed on the Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi Stock Exchange in Vietnam from 2007 to 2018 was taken to test the hypothesis. The study's methods fixed effects panel data analysis provides empirical evidence that firm size, firms' quality, liquidity, leverage, asset maturity, tax impact, and macro variables are significantly related to the debt maturity structure.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.99-114
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• 2015

What explains the sharp increase in the Chinese economy's indebtedness, in particular the China's onshore corporate debt? Has the overall debt burden reached a threshold where it poses a systemic risk, thereby making the economy vulnerable to a "Lehman Moment" - with disorderly unwinding of the private sector and sovereign debt? What are the short and longer term implications of China's growing debt problems on domestic economic growth and the broader global political economy? What has Beijing done to ameliorate the problem, how effective were its efforts, and what must it do to deal with this problem?

• 수산경영론집
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• 제45권3호
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• pp.55-69
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• 2014

We try to test the pecking order theory of Korean fisheries firm's capital structure using debt capacity. At first, we estimate the debt capacity as the probability of assigning corporate bond rating from credit-rating agencies. We use logit regression model to estimate this probability as a proxy of debt capacity. The major results of this study are as follows. Firstly, we can confirm the fisheries firm's financing behaviour which issues new debt securities for financial deficit. Empirical test of SSM model indicates that the higher probability of assigning corporate bond rating, the higher the coefficient of financial deficit. Especially, high probability group follows this result exactly. Therefore, the pecking order theory of fisheries firm's capital structure applies well for high probability group which means high debt capacity. It also applies for medium and low probability group, but their significances are not good. Secondly, the most of fisheries firms in high probability group issue new debt securities for their financial deficit. Low probability group's fisheries firms also issue new debt securities for their financial deficit within the limit of their debt capacity, but beyond debt capacity they use equity financing for financial deficit. Therefore, the pecking order theory on debt capacity come into existence well in high probability group.

• 아태비즈니스연구
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.205-219
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• 2023

Purpose - This study examines the effect of corporate debt characteristics on the relationship between anti-takeover provision and the cost of debt. Design/methodology/approach - The study analyzes a sample of non-financial firms listed on the stock market with December fiscal year-end from 2011 to 2018. Debt default risk (debt size, liquidity ratio, interest coverage ratio, loss occurrence) and the issuance of bonds are utilized as measures of corporate debt characteristics. Findings - First, it is observed that creditors of firms with anti-takeover provision demand higher returns as the debt default risk of these firms increases. Second, for firms issuing bonds, it is found that bondholders in companies with anti-takeover provision also seek higher returns. Research implications or Originality - This study contributes by demonstrating that the effect of anti-takeover provision on creditors can vary depending on corporate debt characteristics. Particularly, the study highlights the importance of a firm's debt default risk and creditor distinction (bondholders vs. regular creditors) as significant factors that may influence perceptions of anti-takeover provision.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제15권7호
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• pp.428-435
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• 2015

우리 기업의 타인자본조달에 관한 통계지표를 살펴보면 대기업은 은행의 기업대출과 회사채 등의 직접금융을 함께 사용하여 자본을 조달하고 있는 반면, 중소기업은 은행대출에 계속 의지하고 있음을 확인할 수 있다. 이러한 현실을 감안하여 본 연구에서는 기업의 타인자본조달을 실증분석하는데 있어 표본선택편의가 존재하고 이를 감안한 연구모형을 사용해야 한다고 주장한다. 이러한 주장을 뒷받침하기 위해 1990년부터 2013년까지의 상장기업 자료를 통해 부채구조를 설명하는 실증분석을 수행한 결과 선행연구에서와 마찬가지로 기업의 회사채사용에 있어 기업규모, 1대주주 지분율, 유형자산 구성비, 수익성, 배당성향 등이 영향을 미치고 있음을 확인할 수 있었으며, 패널표본선택모형에 투입된 Inverse Mills Ratio 변수가 유의하게 나타나 패널표본선택모형을 사용하는 것이 타당함을 확인하였다. 이러한 결과는 기업의 타인자본조달에 있어 표본선택편의가 존재하며 이에 관한 연구에서 이를 반드시 감안해야 함을 의미한다.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.5-18
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• 2017

Total debt in the People's Republic of China surged to nearly 290% as a ratio to GDP by the second quarter of 2016, mostly on account of non-financial corporate debt. The outpouring of credit to stem the impact of the global financial crisis accentuated industrial overcapacity in traditional sectors, such as steel, cement, and energy, while feeding asset bubbles in the property, equity and bond markets. At the Chinese corporate level, this has translated into weakened fundamentals and a fall in industrial profits, particularly of SOEs. As debtors struggle to service interest payments, non-performing loans (NPLs) have been on the rise. This paper assesses the financial fragility of the Chinese economy by looking at risk factors in the non-financial sector. We apply quantile regressions to a dataset containing all Chinese listed companies in Standard & Poor's IQ Capital database. We find higher sensitivity over time of corporate leverage to some of its key determinants, particularly for firms at the upper margin of the distribution. In particular, profitability increasingly acts as a curb on corporate leverage. At a time of falling profitability across the Chinese non-financial corporate sector, this eases the brake on leverage and may contribute to its continuing increase.