financing advantages of low cost, flexible form, medium-term notes once had been a
favourite tool. The rapid development of medium-term notes had an effect on both the
enterprise and the capital market. On the one hand ,it broaden the financing channels,
increased the proportion of direct financing, reduced the financing cost, improved
enterprise's capital structure. On the other hand, it enriched the capital market products
structure, improved the varieties of the duration of debt financing tools, provided
investors with more risk preference choices, and helped the benign operation of the
inter-bank bond market.
At present, the medium-term notes issued pricing mechanism is Book-building
mechanism. The issued rates of medium-term notes is equal to the sum of benchmark
interest rates and spreads. This paper researched the influence factors of the medium-
term notes issued spread, with the national debt rate as the benchmark interest rate. The
research of the influence factors of the medium-term notes issued spreads can contribute
to more reasonable price ,help investors judge the actual investment value of medium-
term notes, provide reasonable Suggestions for policy makers. To this end, the paper
applies the method of combining theoretical analysis and empirical test to study the
influence factors of medium-term notes issued spreads.
The main content of this paper is as follows: first, in order to draw lessons from the
research achievements of predecessors, this article reviewed the relevant studies of
medium-term notes. Secondly, this paper introduced the related concept of medium-
term notes, development history and the present situation of the inter-bank bond market.
In this part, it defined the medium-term notes and the interest spread and clarified the
reason for choosing the benchmark interest rate on government bonds as the interest
spread. This part also introduced the medium-term notes issued mechanism and the
comparison with other distribution mechanism. Again, the writer determined the factors
that influence the medium-term notes issued pricing , collected the data, theoretically
analyzed the impact of these factors on the interest spread. Finally, this paper
established the empirical to inspect these factors’ influence on the interest spread.
The empirical results indicate that: the main credit rating, issuance, debt rating,
inflation, enterprise properties, the secondary market liquidity, release period, GDP
growth, the industry factor has remarkable effect on the issued prices of the medium-
term notes. Among them, the influence of enterprise properties and liquidity on the
medium-term notes issued spreads is contrast to the expection . The paper also made
further analysis of the results. The inconsistent relationship between enterprise nature
and interest spread is due to both the main credit rating and the debt rating of state-
owned enterprises are lower than other enterprises. Meanwhile the influence of main
credit rating and debt rating on interest spread is greater than the influence of enterprise
nature on it. The above two points lead to higher spreads of state-owned enterprises.
Liquidity’s impact on interest spread is smaller than expected. The empirical results
show that the relation degree between liquidity and the interest spread is not high. This
shows that China's medium-term notes’ liquidity in the secondary market has little
effect on the interest spread in the primary market. Other factors is consistent with the
expected.