Piercing the corporate veil system and creditors protection: Based on the investigation of debt paying ability—Empirical evidence from the 2005 Company Law amendment

Jun Tian, Zuopeng Chen and Yue Zhu

PLOS ONE, 2024, vol. 19, issue 5, 1-22

Abstract: This paper uses the difference-in-differences model to research how the “piercing the corporate veil” system marked by the 2005 Company Law amendment affects the level of corporate creditor protection. The research results show that private enterprises and local state-owned enterprises are sensitive and significant to this legal amendment. In contrast, local state-owned enterprises are more sensitive and have a stronger motivation to protect the interests of creditors. The motivation of companies with weaker profitability for creditor protection lasts not only for the year of law revision but also extends to the year of implementation. With the law’s implementation, the growth effect of creditor protection for local state-owned enterprises has become more significant. Further analysis shows that the main findings of this article are more significant in companies with larger debt scales, companies with a higher year-on-year growth rate of operating income, companies with controlling shareholders, and companies with higher stock market capitalization. From an empirical research view, this paper explains the economic effect and mechanism of the whole corporate personality under the complete system and adds economic evidence for how the law acts on the capital market.

Date: 2024
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