ABSTRACT
This paper studies the financing preference and efficiency of China listed company
comparing pre and after the "Corporate Bonds Releasing Trial Act" effective. We find
that the financing preference has changed to debt financing gradually, which is
coinciding with the western classical financing theory.
This paper uses the free and reliable listed companies financial data provided by
Sina and Netease financial channel; By using Web data import function of MS Excel and
Excel VBA macro feature, here a coded batch importing formatting and extracting script
can facilitated and rapid collect the 115 listed companies, 20 quarter (annuals) reports
which blocked into six categories. Using this method we need not to purchase a
specialized financial database for study.
Following asset pricing model of Ohlson, we derived financing costs method; We
also selected the financing policy factors, the cost of debt to equity ratio of capital
financing, industry sectors, the state capital market volume, risk of bankruptcy, debt
capacity, control right, and the company's growth as independent variables that impact
on the financing behavior; The result of Multinomial Logit Model simulation on 1760
sample data does not support the financing preference based on cost hypothesis, we also
find that an abundant market conditions, more conducive to equity financing, a higher
balance rate is more favorable to equity financing, a higher proportion of super
shareholders makes for debt financing. In a conclusion, after the "Corporate Bonds
Releasing Trial Act" effective, the implementation of corporate bonds financing
channels benefits the debt financing preference. As well as the lower assets liability ratio,
relative the poor profitability, the small proportion of large shareholders companies has
the debt financing preference.
Finally, derived by Super-Mixed DEA model calculation on the sample data, we
evaluate the financial efficiency of 100 listed companies from Jan 1st, 2005 to Sep 30th,
2009 in. Found that though the efficiency of the whole financing activities are not high,
relatively speaking, the efficiency of the recent financing is lower; However the
financial efficiency of listed companies by corporate bonds financing is higher
performance than the ones by equity financing.