In this paper we test the pecking order and trade-off hypotheses of corporate financing decisions using a cross-section of the largest Chinese listed companies. We build on Allen (1993) and Baskin (1989) to set up three models in which trade-off and pecking order theories give distinctively different predictions: (1) the determinants of leverage, (2) the relationship between leverage and divide...

The paper studies how risks specific to a nuclear power investment in liberalised markets – regulatory, construction, operation and market risks – can be mitigated or transferred away from the plant investor through different contractual and organisational arrangements. It argues that significant risk transfers onto governments, consumers, and, vendors are likely to be needed to make nuclear po...

Taking listed companies in heavy polluting industries China from 2012 to 2018 as research samples, this paper examines the impact of corporate environmental performance on credit financing capacity. The results show that good contributes improvement capacity, which is embodied more new loans, lower loan rates, longer maturities, and less possibility mortgage guarantee requirements.

There is little consensus on the corporate diversification-efficiency relationship in the diversification literature. The study aims to contribute to the literature by looking jointly at two dimensions of corporate diversification as product diversification and international diversification and the relationship between them. The results show negative relationship between product diversification...