What causes Chinese listed firms to switch bank loan provider? Evidence from a survival analysis

This paper analyses the duration of firm-bank relationships and examines what drives firms in China to change from one bank loan provider to another. Matched data of firm-loan-duration to bank provides a unique panel data set of relationship between China's listed firms and their lending banks...

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Main Authors: Huang, Jiayi, Matthews, Kent, Zhou, Peng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2020
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/60861/
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author Huang, Jiayi
Matthews, Kent
Zhou, Peng
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Zhou, Peng
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description This paper analyses the duration of firm-bank relationships and examines what drives firms in China to change from one bank loan provider to another. Matched data of firm-loan-duration to bank provides a unique panel data set of relationship between China's listed firms and their lending banks consisting of 2102 firms listed on both the Shanghai Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Stock Exchange in the period of 1996–2016. The Cox proportional hazard model is used to allow for a semiparametric hazard function after parametrically controlling for firm-specific financial factors, industry factors, ownership characteristics, internal management changes, and external macroeconomic changes. In addition, we explore the impact of the 2008 financial crisis, bank-financial and ownership characteristics. The main finding of this study is that in an environment of growing commercialisation of relationships the firm-bank relationship between state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and state-owned banks (SOBs) in China remains super-stable. However, a change in the CEO of a firm even of a SOE increases the probability of the loan-provider being changed.
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spelling nottingham-608612020-06-11T01:00:29Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/60861/ What causes Chinese listed firms to switch bank loan provider? Evidence from a survival analysis Huang, Jiayi Matthews, Kent Zhou, Peng This paper analyses the duration of firm-bank relationships and examines what drives firms in China to change from one bank loan provider to another. Matched data of firm-loan-duration to bank provides a unique panel data set of relationship between China's listed firms and their lending banks consisting of 2102 firms listed on both the Shanghai Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Stock Exchange in the period of 1996–2016. The Cox proportional hazard model is used to allow for a semiparametric hazard function after parametrically controlling for firm-specific financial factors, industry factors, ownership characteristics, internal management changes, and external macroeconomic changes. In addition, we explore the impact of the 2008 financial crisis, bank-financial and ownership characteristics. The main finding of this study is that in an environment of growing commercialisation of relationships the firm-bank relationship between state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and state-owned banks (SOBs) in China remains super-stable. However, a change in the CEO of a firm even of a SOE increases the probability of the loan-provider being changed. 2020-06-31 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/60861/1/EMR-Oct2020.pdf Huang, Jiayi, Matthews, Kent and Zhou, Peng (2020) What causes Chinese listed firms to switch bank loan provider? Evidence from a survival analysis. Emerging Markets Review, 43 . p. 100678. ISSN 15660141 Firm-bank switch; China; Survival analysis; Hazard function http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ememar.2020.100678 doi:10.1016/j.ememar.2020.100678 doi:10.1016/j.ememar.2020.100678
spellingShingle Firm-bank switch; China; Survival analysis; Hazard function
Huang, Jiayi
Matthews, Kent
Zhou, Peng
What causes Chinese listed firms to switch bank loan provider? Evidence from a survival analysis
title What causes Chinese listed firms to switch bank loan provider? Evidence from a survival analysis
title_full What causes Chinese listed firms to switch bank loan provider? Evidence from a survival analysis
title_fullStr What causes Chinese listed firms to switch bank loan provider? Evidence from a survival analysis
title_full_unstemmed What causes Chinese listed firms to switch bank loan provider? Evidence from a survival analysis
title_short What causes Chinese listed firms to switch bank loan provider? Evidence from a survival analysis
title_sort what causes chinese listed firms to switch bank loan provider? evidence from a survival analysis
topic Firm-bank switch; China; Survival analysis; Hazard function
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