Shen, Chung-Hua; Wang, Chien-An - In: Applied Economics 37 (2005) 20, pp. 2315-2325
This paper studies whether or not investment decisions are financially constrained in a cross-ownership system of Taiwan. Different from the financial structure in the USA, subsidiaries in Taiwan are allowed to buy stocks of the parent companies. Hence, the conventional debt-to-equity ratio is...