Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/91496 
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Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Economics Discussion Papers No. 2014-5
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
This paper examines the relationship between capital structure and the inner structure of pyramid in an emerging market economy country. The author uses firm-level panel data of Chinese listed companies to analyze the influence of the inner structure of pyramid on capital structure and the differences between different institutional environments of that influence deeply. His results show that the longer the layers of pyramid structure, the stronger the leverage effect of pyramid structure, as well as the ultimate controllers' motivation to expand debt financing will be. So the layers of pyramid structure have a significantly positive effect on capital structure. However, the chains of pyramid structure have no significant effects on capital structure. Compared with the areas with poor institutional environment, in the areas with better institutional environment, the effects of the layers of pyramid structure on corporate capital structure is relatively small.
Subjects: 
pyramid structure
institutional environment
capital structure
agent chain
JEL: 
G32
G38
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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