Do social ties matter for corporate bond yield spreads? Evidence from China

Qiu, Xuemei; Su, Zhong‐qin; Xiao, Zuoping

doi:10.1111/corg.12294

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“…Table 1 reports descriptive statistics of all variables. The average UCI bond yield spread ( spread ) is 2.605 (%) and varies from the first quartile of 1.740% to the third quartile of 3.388%, which is slightly higher than those of corporate bonds in China (Qiu et al , 2019) [10]. In general, 80.4% of the sample cities have HSR stations and each city on average has opened 2.171 HSR lines and connected to a mileage of 951.5 km.…”

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High-speed railway and urban construction investment bond yield spreads: a quasi-natural experiment

Chen

Guo

Xiao

2023

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Purpose This study aims to investigate how high-speed railway (HSR) development affects urban construction investment (UCI) bond yield spreads based on China’s background. Design/methodology/approach This study constructs a quasi-natural experiment and adopts regression analyses to empirically examine the relation between HSR development and UCI bond yield spreads. The empirical analysis is based on a Chinese sample of 15,109 bond offering observations from 2008 to 2019. Findings The results show that HSR development reduces UCI bond yield spreads. Mechanistic analysis shows that HSR development increases land prices and the level of urbanization, which in turn lowers the UCI bond yield spreads. In addition, the impact of HSR development on UCI bond yield spreads is more significant at higher marketization levels and lower degrees of dependence on land finance cities where UCI corporations are located. Research limitations/implications The results imply that transportation infrastructure improvement, such as HSR development, helps to enhance the credit of local governments and the solvency of UCI corporations and ultimately reduces the financing cost of UCI bonds. Originality/value This paper provides theoretical support and empirical evidence for the impact of transportation infrastructure construction on the implicit debt risks of local governments in China, which enriches the research on the “HSR economy” from a micro perspective and expands the research on the influencing factors of local governments’ debt risk.

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High-speed railway and urban construction investment bond yield spreads: a quasi-natural experiment

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Xiao

2023

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“…Our sample period begins in 2011 for two reasons. First, the Chinese corporate bond market has experienced a rapid development period since the CSRC opened a Green Channel to shorten the process for approving bond issuances in early 2011 (Qiu et al, 2019). Second, as shown in the previous section, measuring longitudinal comparability requires data of 16 preceding quarters.…”

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Longitudinal accounting comparability and bond credit spreads: Evidence from China

Cao

Wang

2022

Accounting & Finance

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“…Other studies also show various positive outcomes of social networks, including a lower cost of debt capital (Qiu et al, 2019), high credit ratings (Benson et al, 2018;Khatami et al, 2016), preferential source of financing (M. Braun et al, 2019;Fogel et al, 2018), increased innovation (Helmers et al, 2017), and improved corporate governance (Y.-S. Chen et al, 2014;Pascual-Fuster & Crespí-Cladera, 2018).…”

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The work stress of Chinese senior executives: Work stressors and coping strategies

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Along with rapid economic development, work stress has become a serious issue in China, especially for senior executives who are steering their organisations in this turbulent and complex social environment. The Chinese economy is transitioning from being centrally planned towards a more market-orientated one, where political and market forces continue to work closely together. As these economic changes challenge traditional values such as harmony and guanxi, Chinese senior executives who work within these environments and manage these workplace transitions become an interesting focus of attention worthy of deeper research. While our knowledge about work stress is mainly based on research in Western societies, how work stress manifests itself in a transitional economy like China is underexplored. Drawing on cognitive appraisal theory, this study examines the work stress of Chinese senior executives. Work stress is not only caused by stressors but is also influenced by the efficacy of coping. As an individual can cope with a stressor in different ways depending on the resources possessed by the individual, this study is interested in the relationship between coping resources and coping strategies. Therefore, it asks two research questions: What stressors do Chinese senior executives experience in their work environment? How do Chinese senior executives utilise resources to cope with their work stress? This study draws on phenomenology as a philosophical lens to explore the work stress of Chinese senior executives as stress is conceptualised as a subjective personal experience, the investigation of which needs to be based on the phenomenological assumption that reality is based on perception and interpretation of the external world. In addressing the research questions, a sample of Chinese senior executive within private, public, and mixed ownership organisations were interviewed using Critical Incident Technique (CIT) to capture contextual details critical for identifying stressors and coping strategies. Research data was analysed using six phases of thematic analysis. This study contributes to extant literature by providing insights into the work stressors and coping strategies that Chinese senior executives face and employ. Findings highlight the relevance of both organisational and environmental factors in shaping performance uncertainty that give rise to the work stress of Chinese senior executives. Moreover, political-business role conflict linked to the one-party state is identified as a distinctive work stressor in the Chinese context – a work stressor that has hitherto not been identified in the work stress literature. Furthermore, whereas previous literature predominantly focuses on workplace interpersonal conflicts as a major work stressor, this study identifies an additional interpersonal stressor: the challenge of maintaining workplace interpersonal harmony. Finally, while previous research of career-related stressors mainly focuses on negative, confining career experiences, this study reveals that Chinese senior executives often identify challenging work goals in their desire for career success. As for coping, prior research has mainly focused on individual coping, with less attention afforded to collective and social coping. This study finds that collective coping is supported by job resources (within the organisation) and that social coping is underpinned by social resources (external to the organisation). A specific focus of this study was to examine how job and social resources are utilised to implement collective and social coping. Findings reveal that job and social resources facilitate problem-focused strategies in both collective and social coping. By contrast, these resources are barely used to facilitate emotion-focused and meaning-focused strategies in both collective and social coping. Research has shown that effective coping is determined by coping flexibility and that multiple coping strategies are utilised flexibly according to different situations. However, the asymmetric pattern of collective and social coping found in this study indicates that Chinese senior executives may not fully benefit from coping in the organisational and social domain. Overall, this study builds on cognitive appraisal theory by identifying several contextually situated work stressors and explaining the connections between coping resources and coping strategies within the framework of collective and social coping. In doing so, the study provides new insights into work stress in the Chinese context, where Chinese senior executives are required to meet many contradictory expectations in a rapidly changing society.

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Do social ties matter for corporate bond yield spreads? Evidence from China

Cited by 15 publications

References 135 publications

High-speed railway and urban construction investment bond yield spreads: a quasi-natural experiment

High-speed railway and urban construction investment bond yield spreads: a quasi-natural experiment

Longitudinal accounting comparability and bond credit spreads: Evidence from China

The work stress of Chinese senior executives: Work stressors and coping strategies

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