摘要
研发投入作为重要的战略决策,其与资本结构决策之间的互动关系吸引了学者们的关注。已有文献多从资本结构如何影响研发投入角度出发,却较少关注研发投入如何影响资本结构选择。研发投入构成企业一项重要的非债务税盾,本文拟基于非债务税盾视角,分析研发投入如何影响企业的资本结构选择。检验结果表明:研发投入与有息债务水平显著负相关,符合"替代效应"的假设预期;研发投入对债务融资的"替代效应"在接近"税收耗损状态"的企业中更为明显,进一步验证非债务税盾视角解释的合理性;对比国有企业与非国有企业,"税收耗损状态"假说在非国有企业中更为显著,表明非国有企业对税收更为敏感。进一步根据债务期限结构的研究表明,上述结论主要存在于短期有息债务中,而长期有息债务并未发现上述结论。本文不仅发现了一种新形式的非债务税盾,拓宽了非债务税盾的研究范畴,而且从新视角研究研发投入与资本结构选择之间的关系,丰富了相关领域的学术文献。
R&D investment is an important strategic decision, and the interaction between R&D investment and capital structure decisions attracts extremely concern. Prior studies mainly focus on the impact of capital structure on R&D, whereas few papers analyze how R&D affects capital structure. Since R&D expenditures are important non-debt related tax shields, this paper seeks to explore how R&D affects capital structure from the perspective of non-debt related tax shields. Empirical results suggest that non-debt related tax shields in form of R&D are significantly negatively correlated with the interest bearing debt, supporting the "substitution effect" hypothesis. When an enterprise is subject to a substantial tax exhaustion status, it's R&D may more likely reduce corporate interest bearing debt, which further support the "substitution effect". Compared with state-owned enterprises, non-state-owned enterprises are more tax aggressiveness, and the tax exhaustion hypothesis is more pronounced in non-state-owned enterprises. The results above are more pronounced in short-term interest bearing debt. However, long-term interest bearing debt does not show the same results. This paper not only finds a new form of non-debt related tax shields which broadens the scope of studies on non-debt related tax shields, but also examines the relation between R&D and capital structure from a new perspective which enriches related academic literature.
出处
《中国工业经济》
CSSCI
北大核心
2015年第11期125-140,共16页
China Industrial Economics
基金
国家自然科学基金青年项目"控股股东‘掏空'及其经济后果:来自企业所得税的影响"(批准号71502033)
国家自然科学基金面上项目"政府监管
现金股利承诺与公司行为"(批准号71272100)
中央高校基本科研业务费专项资金"税收征管
公司避税与现金持有行为研究"(批准号2242015S20001)
关键词
研发投入
资本结构
非债务税盾
税收耗损状态
产权性质
R&D investment
capital structure
non-debt related tax shields
tax exhaustion status
nature of property right