2004 NTU International Conference of Finance on

Financial Market Competition and Integration

台灣大學財金系 2004/12/20( 一 )

講演教授：淡江大學財務金融系所系主任兼所長 聶建中 博士 http://mail

.tku.edu.tw/niehcc/Nieh, Chien-Chung

Panel Threshold Effect of Debt Ratio on Firm Value in Chinese Listed Companies

債務比率的門檻效果對中國上市公司的價值影響

Panel Threshold Effect of Debt Ratio on Firm Value in Chinese Listed Companies

employs threshold regression model to investigate the panel threshold effect of financial leverage on operating performance (or firm value) of Chinese listed firms optimal capital structure

ROA => operating performancedebt-to-asset ratio => threshold variable

資 本 結 構(capital

structure)

權益資本 (Equity Capital)

負債資本 (Debt Capital)

財務槓桿的運用

相對關係 此消彼長

負債資本

優點

缺點

適當的使用帶來稅盾效果

過度使用會連帶產生破產成本、 代理成本、 負債成本

提高公司價值

公司價值下降

財務槓桿運用程度

最適負債比率過低 過高

公司價值極大化

降低公司價值

無法有效提昇

理論上應存在

Data and Variables

821 A-shares firms on the Shanghai stock exchange (SHSE) and Shenzhen stock exchange (SZSE) that went public before 1998

(343 firms are from SHSE and 478 from SZSE) sample period running from 1998 to 2002 ‘balanced panel data’ of debt-to-asset ratio and

ROA, each with the total observations of 4105 (821*5)

The sample excludes the listed financial firms.

industry pattern of capital structure of industry firms the ST and PT firms were not included in the sample465 A-shares industry firms on the SHSE and SZSE sample period 1998 to 2002again ‘balanced panel data’ with 2325 observations

ST and PT are abbreviations for Special Treatment and Particular Treatment, respectively.

When the firm is not profitable for two consecutive years, it will be classified as ST stock. If the ST stock is still unprofitable, it will be classified as PT stock. (Now this provision is abolished.)

Data and Variables

Independent Variable (Threshold variable) Long-term Debt and Short-term Debt in China Book Value and Market Value in China

Dependent Variable** ROA (the ratio of net profits to total assets) ***Tobin q cannot well assess Chinese listed firm

value because of the difficulty of evaluating the market value of non-circulating shares, the market value of debt and replacement cost

Data and Variables

Tables Results

Table 1 Descriptive Statistics of Variables for 821 A-shares firms

Table 2 Descriptive Statistics of Variables for 465 A-shares industry firms

Methodology (Panel Threshold) (Basic Model)

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公司價值

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本文主要在討探負債比率對於公司價值的影響

解釋變數

被解釋變數

研 究 方 法 ( 五 )

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Results

triple threshold effect the coefficients for four regimes are all positive and

significant the operating performance is positively related to the debt level

(However) firms with ‘very low debt’ has relatively higher coefficient the positive effect decreases when debt-to-asset ratio increases

(Moreover) the industry pattern of capital structure the industry pattern does not match the Chinese listed firms