本文以中国上市公司2002至2011年间发行的70只可转换债券为样本,研究了中国上市公司可转债赎回策略的相关问题。文章首次全面检验了传统理论在解释我国可转债赎回策略和延迟赎回问题上的有效性,并且创新性地考虑了软赎回约束条款在可转债赎回策略中的作用。稳健性的分析结果显示:传统的信息不对称理论、安全溢价理论和现金流优势理论在我国可转债的赎回时机问题上有着较强的解释力;软赎回约束条款是可转债赎回决策中的关键因素,触发软条款的公司一般都会通知赎回,并且有着较高的赎回溢价。
This paper discusses the issue of convertible bonds' call policy of China's listed companies, using thedaily observations of all newly issued 70 convertible bonds from 2002 to 2011. It is the first paper that tests thevalidity of traditional theories in explaining China's listed companies' call policy. In addition, this paper in-volves the soft call provision into the empirical analysis innovatively. Empirical results indicate that traditionalasymmetric information theory, safety premium theory and cash flow advantage theory have strong power in ex-plain the issue of convertible bonds' call policy ; the soft call provision plays an important role in the decision ofcalling convertible bonds.