Bank Relationship and Firm Performance: Evidence From Thailand Before the Asian Financial Crisis

Abstract:   This study examines the relation between bank relations and market performance in Thailand, an economy in which commercial banks play a crucial role through lending relationship and, for a number of companies, equity ownership. Overall, bank relationships, both equity‐based and debt‐based, positively affect capital investment. However, there is a negative relation between lending relationships, both short‐term and long‐term, and market performance indicating that bank lending may not always be consistent with value maximization. There is also evidence of a positive marginal effect of bank monitoring through equity ownership on market performance. Further, the relation between bank equity ownership and market performance appears to be non‐linear with a concave function. Ownership by corporate insiders is also negatively related to bank equity ownership. Overall, the findings highlight the detrimental effects of excessive short‐term debt usage, one of the factors believed to contribute to the financial crisis in Thailand, and the marginal benefit of the equity‐based relationship on firm value.     

金融科技、银行竞争与企业成长

基于2011-2018年A股上市公司数据,实证检验银行竞争在金融科技与企业成长之间的调节效应。结果表明：金融科技发展显著驱动企业成长,而银行竞争水平提高会扩大该影响效应。同时,金融科技的覆盖广度、使用深度、数字支持服务程度均会对企业成长产生积极影响。进一步通过异质性研究发现,金融科技和银行竞争的交互作用对民营企业、轻资产企业、东部地区企业以及服务业企业影响更强,表明金融科技有助于缓解传统金融供给带来的“属性锚定”和“阶段锚定”问题。     

美国寿险上市公司衍生金融工具应用效应的实证研究

衍生金融产品价格并非标的金融资产价格的一元线性函数,因而使用衍生产品最终是否能够起到风险管理之目的虽倾向于正面但尚存争论.国际上现有研究基本都从讨论企业使用衍生品的动机和影响因素出发,间接推测衍生品使用对企业的影响.本文以美国寿险上市公司为研究对象,研究衍生品使用对寿险公司业绩的直接效应,运用Panel data模型实证检验的结果表明衍生品运用之于寿险公司业绩存在明显正面效应,从而为中国衍生产品市场推出之后放开对寿险企业的投资准入提供了正面的实证依据.     

银行数字普惠金融、银行竞争与企业融资约束

基于中国31个省份的相关数据,使用变异系数法构建银行数字普惠金融指数,以中小企业板上市公司为研究样本,讨论竞争程度变化时银行数字普惠金融对中小企业融资约束的影响及变化.研究发现:银行数字普惠金融发展有利于缓解中小企业融资约束,当银行竞争程度较高时,缓解作用更加明显.同时,相对于民营中小企业,银行数字普惠金融发展对国有中小企业融资约束的缓解作用更加明显,反映了当前银行在发展数字普惠金融时存在选择偏向问题.但随着银行竞争的提高,这种问题有所缓解.     

What Drives the Relationship Between Financial Flexibility and Firm Performance: Investment Scale or Investment Efficiency? Evidence from China

Financial flexibility helps improve firm performance. By using data from Chinese listed companies, we examine whether investment scale or investment efficiency drives the relationship between financial flexibility and firm performance via a special mediator testing method that is widely used in the psychology literature (Baron and Kenny, 1986). We find that financial flexibility has a significant and positive effect on both investment and firm performance. However, investment scale rather than investment efficiency seems to drive firm performance. This finding helps us understand that Chinese companies tend to emphasize investment expansion more than they do investment efficiency to improve firm performance.     

银行监管与企业融资的跨国实证分析

依据世界银行对各国银行监管与微观企业调查的跨国数据,运用实证分析方法,考量巴塞尔协议三大银行监管手段对企业融资的影响。结果发现：资本充足率要求与私营部门监测均会降低融资可得性,且对中小型企业的影响更大;而政府部门监管权力能提高企业融资可得性。鉴于此,监管机制设计应充分考虑不同政策的相互影响,特别是对中小型企业融资的冲击,慎重调整资本充足率与对私人监测程度的监管要求,妥善应用政府监测程度监管权力来实现金融稳定与企业融资的双赢,增强金融服务实体经济能力。     

企业ESG表现对企业韧性的影响研究

依据 2009-2022 年 A股上市公司数据,构建多元线性回归模型,考量企业 ESG表现对企业韧性的影响.结果显示:企业 ESG表现对企业韧性正向影响显著,企业 ESG表现越好,企业韧性越强,且在重污染行业和东部地区企业中更为显著;良好的企业 ESG表现主要通过缓解企业融资约束和提高企业创新效率两个渠道增强企业韧性.鉴于此,企业应努力提升自身 ESG表现,政府主管部门要引导并鼓励企业加强ESG建设,各利益相关方发挥监督作用,强化企业韧性,助力企业高质量发展.     

融资约束、支付方式与并购绩效的关系研究

本文利用中国A股上市公司2008～2010年在国内并购的数据,实证检验融资约束是否影响并购支付方式以及公司并购绩效。研究结果发现,融资约束程度的提高增加了公司采用现金支付对价的可能性;收购公司规模和交易规模对支付方式选择也具有显著影响;融资约束公司并购绩效好于无融资约束公司并购绩效;现金支付引起公司并购绩效降低,但是,这种作用在不同融资约束程度公司中存在差异。本文研究意味着融资约束公司遵循融资优序理论;自由现金流假说对于融资约束公司可能不成立。     

Financial constraints and asset pricing: comprehensive evidence from London Stock Exchange

This study provides comprehensive evidence on the pricing of financial constraints (FC) risk on London Stock Exchange during the period 1988–2013. Utilizing a large number of proxies for FC, we find that investors are not compensated with higher premia for holding shares of financially constrained firms. To the contrary, in most of the cases, the most constrained firms significantly underperform, both statistically and economically, the least constrained ones. Focussing on the Whited–Wu index to construct a zero-cost FC factor that goes long the most constrained firms and sells short the least constrained ones, we find that this factor carries a significantly negative premium and it is priced in the cross-section over and above the commonly used risk factors.     

Firm Size Dependence in the Determinants of Bank Term Loan Maturity

Abstract:   We examine the hypothesis that firm size affects the sensitivity of bank term loan maturity to its underlying determinants. As borrower size increases, negotiating power with the lender and information transparency increase, while the lender is able to spread the fixed costs of loan production across a larger dollar value of the loan. We find strong evidence of firm size dependency in the determinants of bank term loan maturity and show that this is unrelated to syndication. Only large borrowers can manipulate bank loan contract terms so as to increase firm value.     

客观看待个别金融产品的违约事件

本文总结了我国当前金融产品违约的总体情况,分析了个别金融产品违约是实体经济转型和金融体系改革的双重反映,以及金融产品违约个案被过度解读折射出的问题。提出应从引导投资者预期、推动资金业务模式转型,制定资管行业经营行为规范、建立市场化得金融资源配置机制等方面入手,推进金融深化,营造健康有序的投资环境。     

金融危机背景下中国金融衍生品市场的发展

本轮金融危机被冠以衍生品泛滥之名,使得国内对发不发展和如何发展我国金融衍生品市场产生纷争。本文通过分析指出本次危机是系统性危机,金融衍生品是其复杂传导链条中的一个环节,不应担当危机爆发的主要责任。通过中美金融衍生品市场的比较,发现我国金融衍生品市场仍处于初级阶段,与差距逐渐缩小的中美债券市场规模、中美经济总量规模相比,中国金融衍生品市场发展缓慢,市场发展空间巨大。最后指出我们应该深化基础市场建设,逐步建立多层次的金融衍生产品市场结构,并建议商业银行培育自身金融衍生产品的核心竞争力,提升风险管理水平。     

人民银行与我国的金融稳定--对《中国人民银行法》第二条的思考

金融稳定是一个具有全局性、综合性的概念。维护金融稳定，需要行政手段、经济手段和法律手段的综合运用。因此金融稳定需要政府、政府宏观经济管理部门、中央银行、财政部门及各金融监管部门采取不同的政策措施来影响金融机构、金融市场和经济运行才能实现。所以，虽然《人民银行法》将金融稳定的职责赋予人民银行，但是人民银行的法定职权并不足以使其承担起维护金融稳定的责任。     

Financial Turbulence and the Japanese Main Bank Relationship

Under the Japanese main bank relationship, a bank holds equity in a firm and plays a leading role in its decision-making and financing. This may leave a firm dependent on its main bank for financing due to its information advantage over other potential lenders. This dependency may be particularly severe during episodes of financial turbulence. We examine the sensitivity of returns on portfolios of Japanese firm equity to the returns of their main banks using a three-factor arbitrage-pricing model. We find no significant dependence when coefficient values are held constant over the entire sample. However, the data strongly suggest a structural break in the relationship subsequent to the last quarter of 1997, a turbulent period for Japanese financial markets. When a structural break is introduced, main bank sensitivity increases after the break, usually to significantly positive levels.