Leverage and investment: a view of prominent role of state ownership

Thi Phuong Thao Hoang and Duc Nam Phung

International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance, 2019, vol. 10, issue 2, 181-212

Abstract: The study investigates the relationship between leverage and investment in the presence of state ownership in an emerging market. The paper finds that leverage is negatively correlated to corporate investment. This negative relationship is different among firms with different growth opportunities in which the negative relation is significantly larger for low growth companies than high growth ones. Furthermore, when the role of state ownership at both bank and firm levels is taken into account, we find that state ownership tends to attenuate the negative relationship between leverage and investment. The results imply a biased and less-constrained lending policy of a banking system wherein state-owned banks dominate. This bias, in turn, causes over-and-inefficient investments in state-owned firms.

Keywords: corporate governance; leverage; investment; state ownership; finance; emerging markets. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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