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The purpose of this paper is to use financial data of public firms in the Taiwan stock market to study the interaction among the investment, dividend and financing decisions of firms under issuing convertibles or not, and to decide the imperfect degree of Taiwan capital market. 1. The scholars didn''t consider convertibles in the past papers.So we take the convertibles into account and use Two-Stage Switching Simultaneous Equation system to research this subject. Given that a firm issue convertibles or not,the interaction among the three decisions are examined. 2. To test the proposition by Dhrymes and Kurz (1967) that a firm''s investment decision competes with its dividend dicision for limitted source of funds. The major findings are : 1. When a firm doesn''t issue convertibles, financing decision will influence investment decision. That is, financing decision will influence the value of a firm. From this result, Taiwan capital market is an imperfect capital market. 2. When a firm issues convertibles, investment dicision will positively influence dividend dicision. From this result, the proposition by Dhrymes and Kurz (1967) doesn''t gain support.
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