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The Effect of Access to Public Debt Market on Chinese Firms Leverage

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  • Xiaoya (Sara) Ding
  • Meiying Wu
  • Ligang Zhong

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Publicly traded firms in China rely heavily on equity financing and are constrained in debt financing. Gaining access to the public debt market substantially alleviates the constraint. The debt ratio of the firms that have access to the public debt market is approximately 14 percent higher than the firms without access. Everything else being equal, gaining access to the public debt market significantly increases the debt ratio by 3.44 percent, and this increase is concentrated in long-term debt. We further find that non-SOEs enjoy greater benefits from access to the public debt market than SOEs, as evidenced by an increase in their total debt ratio and long-term debt ratio. For SOEs, the increase in long-term debt is offset by the decrease in short-term debt, which results in no change in total debt ratio. Our findings suggest the importance of access to the public debt market for Chinese firms, especially for non-SOEs that do not have privileged access to capital as do the SOEs.

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  • Xiaoya (Sara) Ding & Meiying Wu & Ligang Zhong, 2016. "The Effect of Access to Public Debt Market on Chinese Firms Leverage," Chinese Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 49(5), pages 327-342, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:mes:chinec:v:49:y:2016:i:5:p:327-342
    DOI: 10.1080/10971475.2016.1193387
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    1. Li, Yuanhui & Nie, Weiqian & Xiang, Erwei & Djajadikerta, Hadrian Geri, 2018. "Can banks identify firms’ real earnings management? Evidence from China," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 25(C), pages 23-29.

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