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标题：Dynamics of financial leverage across firm life cycle in Chinese firms: an empirical investigation using dynamic panel data model
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作者：Ajid ur Rehman ; Ajid ur Rehman ; Man Wang 等
期刊名称：China Finance and Economic Review
电子版ISSN：2196-5633
出版年度：2016
卷号：4
期号：1
页码：1-22
DOI：10.1186/s40589-016-0041-z
语种：English
出版社：Springer
摘要：Abstract Background This study tries to investigate how firms adjust their leverage policy across the firm’s life cycle. For this purpose the study uses an extensive set of data of 867 A listed Chinese non-financial firms over a nineteen years period (1996-2014). Methods The study employs Arellano-Bover/Blundell-Bond dynamic panel data model to estimate adjustment rate of leverage and its determinants in three different life stages of Chinese firms. We find that adjustment rate of leverage varies for different life stages. Results In accordance with trade off theory of capital structure this study reports a low-high-low pattern of leverage across growth, maturity and decline stage of firms’ life respectively. For total leverage, dynamic panel data reports highest adjustment rate for growing firms, followed by mature firms and firms in declining stage of their life. Conclusions Both short term and long term leverage report similar pattern of leverage’s adjustment rate across the three stages of life cycle. The study provides useful insight in a unique market setting of Chinese financial markets.
关键词：Firm life cycle;Leverage;Chinese firms;Dynamic adjustment;GMM