Board of directors is one of the important parts of the corporate internal governance mechanism. Using panel data from 144 China's private listed companies during 2001-2003, this paper empirically studies the relatio...Board of directors is one of the important parts of the corporate internal governance mechanism. Using panel data from 144 China's private listed companies during 2001-2003, this paper empirically studies the relationship between board characteristics and capital structure with the methods of pooled OLS, first-order difference model and fixed ,effect model.展开更多
基金This paper is sponsored by Guangdong Soft Science Foundation Project (No. 2003C70129).
文摘Board of directors is one of the important parts of the corporate internal governance mechanism. Using panel data from 144 China's private listed companies during 2001-2003, this paper empirically studies the relationship between board characteristics and capital structure with the methods of pooled OLS, first-order difference model and fixed ,effect model.