What promotes greater use of the corporate bond market?: a study of the issuance behaviour of firms in Asia

This paper investigates bond market development in Asia by exploring the determinants of firms’ decisions to issue public debt in a range of Asian economies. Using a novel database covering the period 1995 to 2007, we use comparable micro level panel of nine countries—China, Hong Kong SAR, Indonesia...

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Main Authors: Mizen, Paul, Tsoukas, Serafeim
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Published: Oxford University Press 2014
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34881/
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description This paper investigates bond market development in Asia by exploring the determinants of firms’ decisions to issue public debt in a range of Asian economies. Using a novel database covering the period 1995 to 2007, we use comparable micro level panel of nine countries—China, Hong Kong SAR, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand—to explore factors that promote bond issuance by firms. We control for firm characteristics and market features such as bond market depth and liquidity; we also consider supra-national policy initiatives to improve bond market function. Our paper demonstrates that regional initiatives have been an important step towards greater bond issuance by firms in Asia, mostly by fostering market deepening and improving liquidity.
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spelling nottingham-348812020-05-04T16:40:19Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34881/ What promotes greater use of the corporate bond market?: a study of the issuance behaviour of firms in Asia Mizen, Paul Tsoukas, Serafeim This paper investigates bond market development in Asia by exploring the determinants of firms’ decisions to issue public debt in a range of Asian economies. Using a novel database covering the period 1995 to 2007, we use comparable micro level panel of nine countries—China, Hong Kong SAR, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand—to explore factors that promote bond issuance by firms. We control for firm characteristics and market features such as bond market depth and liquidity; we also consider supra-national policy initiatives to improve bond market function. Our paper demonstrates that regional initiatives have been an important step towards greater bond issuance by firms in Asia, mostly by fostering market deepening and improving liquidity. Oxford University Press 2014-01-01 Article PeerReviewed Mizen, Paul and Tsoukas, Serafeim (2014) What promotes greater use of the corporate bond market?: a study of the issuance behaviour of firms in Asia. Oxford Economic Papers, 66 (1). 227 -253. ISSN 1464-3812 Asia Corporate bond market http://oep.oxfordjournals.org/content/66/1/227 doi:10.1093/oep/gpt005 doi:10.1093/oep/gpt005
spellingShingle Asia
Corporate bond market
Mizen, Paul
Tsoukas, Serafeim
What promotes greater use of the corporate bond market?: a study of the issuance behaviour of firms in Asia
title What promotes greater use of the corporate bond market?: a study of the issuance behaviour of firms in Asia
title_full What promotes greater use of the corporate bond market?: a study of the issuance behaviour of firms in Asia
title_fullStr What promotes greater use of the corporate bond market?: a study of the issuance behaviour of firms in Asia
title_full_unstemmed What promotes greater use of the corporate bond market?: a study of the issuance behaviour of firms in Asia
title_short What promotes greater use of the corporate bond market?: a study of the issuance behaviour of firms in Asia
title_sort what promotes greater use of the corporate bond market?: a study of the issuance behaviour of firms in asia
topic Asia
Corporate bond market
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34881/
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https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34881/