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Record W2789451952 · doi:10.12735/jbm.v7n1p1

Capital Structure and Foreign Ownership: Evidence from China

2018· article· en· W2789451952 on OpenAlex
Agyapomaa Gyeke‐Dako

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Business & Management · 2018
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicCorporate Finance and Governance
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsChinaBusinessForeign ownershipInternational economicsEconomicsForeign direct investmentPolitical scienceMacroeconomics

Abstract

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This study provides fresh evidence on how sensitive long and short-term debts are to their financial determinants, looking at firms with different degrees of foreign ownership. Specifically, the study divides ownership into three groups, Purely Domestic, Joint Ventures and Wholly Foreign Firms and compares how their respective long-term debt and short-term debts respond to changes in their financial determinants. Wholly Foreign Firms and Joint Ventures are presumed to be more efficient and have a larger pool of cash flow compared to Purely Domestic Firms. In addition, firms with some degree of foreign ownership are presumed to be more endowed with tangible assets than firms without any degree of foreign ownership. Differences in these endowments are expected to reflect in the debt maturity choices of the different types of firms. Using ORIANA Dataset covering the period 2000-2008 on over 20,000 Chinese firms and the GMM technique, this study finds that while wholly-foreign firms and joint ventures’ short-term debt respond less to changes in cash flow compared to domestic firms’, there is no difference between how wholly-foreign firms and joint ventures long-term debt respond to changes in cash flow. Contrary to our expectations, we find that an increase in collateral will allow foreign firms to increase their long-term debt much more than Joint Ventures and Purely Domestic Firms. The implication of these results is that China’s attempt to improve its financial system has not fully gained grounds.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.361
Threshold uncertainty score0.675

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.002
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.209
Teacher spread0.192 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it