| dc.description.abstract | The adverse selection and moral hazard are caused by the agency problem of information asymmetry have a wide range of issues, there had been many literatures to study this issue in the past. Based on the information asymmetry, this study explores that when there is information asymmetry between senior managers and external stockholders, the agency problems generated by senior managers cause the company′s investment to deviate from expectations, making the company′s investment inefficient, and thus causing the impact of cost of debt capital.
In this study, we use those research sample from 2010 to 2017 of the electronics industry of Taiwan listed company. The measure of investment efficiency is deviation between actual investment and expected investment based on Biddle et al. (2009). The interest expense plus the capitalized interest are divided by the average interest-bearing liabilities as the proxy variable of the cost of debt capital, and the regression analysis is carried out.
The result of this study shows that the better the investment efficiency of the enterprise in the last period, the lower the cost of debt capital, meaning the last period investment efficiency of the enterprise has a significant negative relationship with the current period cost of debt capital. In addition, this study also regression analyzed the impact of the investment efficiency of the enterprise in the last period and the current period cost of excess debt capital in the chapter 4 section 3 sensitivity analysis. This result is in line with the research hypothesis: the investment efficiency of enterprises has a negative relationship with the cost of debt capital, it means that compared with investment-efficient enterprises and investment-inefficient enterprises, the latter do have a higher cost of debt capital.
This study comes up with relevant evidence on the negative relationship between investment efficiency and the cost of debt capital, which can be used to consider the factors affecting the cost of debt capital in the future. | en_US |