English Abstract: The author proposes a new type of asset-backed security, called Exchange Traded Pieced Loan (ETPL), designed to address a variety of major issues for savers, lenders, borrowers, authorities and other stakeholders in China's markets for investment and credit. An ETPL's...

This paper attempts to analyze corporate tax evasion in a principal-agent framework. We assume that the firm's profit is positively related to managerial effort and that the executive compensation is profit-based. In addition, we consider the situation where the manager might underreport the...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of corporate governance on technical efficiency. We use the Translog stochastic production function to derive technical efficiency. Four empirical results are observed: (1) Technical efficiency has a negative relationship with the following two...

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This paper employs an incremental approach to explore the determinants of corporate debt financing strategies such as the factors of the issuing costs, information asymmetry, growth opportunity, credit quality and managerial ownership. Addition to univariate analysis model, we use multiple logit...

The aim of this paper is to re-examine the sequential-financing hypothesis in the context of convertible bond issuances from firms listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange from 1994 to 2003. The results contend that announcements of convertible debt offerings are, on average, associated with...