隨著赤道原則概念的推行，銀行的授信決策中，逐漸考量公司的環境、社會、公司治理等面向的表現，顯示企業社會責任表現已成為銀行風險評估的因素之一。因此，本研究以信用風險評等與銀行借款利率作為企業風險之代理變數，探討企業社會責任表現是否會影響信評機構與銀行對公司之預期風險。 在控制財務特性及公司治理變數下，本研究實證結果顯示：（1）企業社會責任負面表現（環保與安全、資訊公告、其他違法與違規及綜合指標面向）與信用風險評等呈正向關係；（2）企業社會責任負面表現（其他違法與違規面向）與銀行借款利率呈正向關係；（3）額外之測試顯示，長期借款利率較短期借款利率更能反映企業社會責任對利率的影響。綜合上述分析結果，信評機構及銀行皆會將企業社會責任負面表現視為風險因子，提升公司信用風險評等及借款利率，使得公司的融資門檻提高。 / With the promotion of the Equator Principles, environmental, social and governance performance of the business is becoming considerations for bank loan decisions. It shows that corporate social responsibility has been one of the factors for risk considerations. Therefore, our study uses credit rating as well as loan rates as proxies for business risk to investigate whether the CSR performance affects the risk anticipation of banks and credit rating agencies. After controlling firm-specific and corporate governance factors, we find that: (1) A significantly positive association exits between CSR negative performance (environmental protection and safety, information announcement, other violations and the whole) and credit rating; (2) A significantly positive association also exits between CSR negative performance (other violations) and loan rates; (3) the analysis of additional tests indicates that CSR negative performance has greater effect on long-term loan rates than on short-term rates. To sum up, the CSR negative performance is one of the risk factors for banks and credit rating agencies to increase the credit rating and loan rates, simultaneously raising the financing threshold for the business.

近年來知名公司面臨起訴或遭到定罪的消息層出不窮，然而在公司定罪的相關研究中，多數文獻著重於探究遭受定罪之事實對公司價值的影響，較少研究聚焦於定罪事實對公司所參與之聯貸案契約條件的影響，有鑑於此，本篇文章旨在探討犯罪公司於定罪前後其聯貸借款條件之借款利率是否有顯著差異。本篇研究發現事件前後犯罪公司之借款利率差異並不顯著。當我們試以修正資料庫登錄與犯罪新聞時間差的問題後，結果顯示犯罪公司之借款利率於犯罪相關新聞發布後顯著上升，除此之外，考量交乘作用後發現犯罪公司間，犯罪罪刑為詐欺類以及受判罰金較高的犯罪公司於事件後，相較於其他犯罪公司，該類公司更傾向面臨較高的借貸成本。 / A number of well-known corporate prosecutions have been raised in recent years. Previous literature focuses more on the valuation impact of corporate convictions. Empirical evidence on how corporate convictions affect the contract terms of syndicated loan is sparse. We examine how corporate misconducts affect the pricing of bank debt after corporate convictions. We find that the difference of loan spreads between facilities initiated before and after conviction are insignificant. Taking potential lag of initial announcement time into consideration, we find significant evidence that the effect of corporate conviction is positively associated with the increases of loan spreads. Moreover, interaction terms with conviction variable show that firms with large fines or convicted of fraud-related crimes tend to face higher loan spread after convictions.