Determinants and Impacts of the Relative Use of Depository Receipts and Euro Convertible Bonds by High-tech Corporations: An Empirical Study

Leon Li, Hsuan-Ho Cheng (hsuanho525@yahoo.com.tw), Yu-Chen Lin (d87722003@ntu.edu.tw) and Alan T. Wang (wangt@mail.ncku.edu.tw)
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Hsuan-Ho Cheng: TECO Electric Machinery Co.,Ltd
Yu-Chen Lin: Department of Accountancy, National Cheng Kung University
Alan T. Wang: Department of Accountancy, National Cheng Kung University

Economics Bulletin, 2007, vol. 3, issue 10, 1-13

Abstract: This paper adopts Taiwan's high-tech companies as the sample to address and examine four new determinants of various foreign financing instruments and test their impacts on the issuing firms. Our empirical findings are consistent with the following notions. First, the firms with higher foreign holding and foreign investment will be likely to adopt foreign financing policy. Moreover, the firms with higher stock dividend payment in Taiwan will adopt both of ECB (Euro convertible bond) and DR (depository receipt). Firm managers with better education background will prefer DR. Second, the use of DR can effectively decrease the volatility of stock returns but also pronounce a negative influence on the mean of stock returns. In contrast, the use of ECB can effectively increase the mean but can not significantly decrease the volatility.

JEL-codes: C2 C7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-03-27
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