对“违法违规”力求标本兼治——山西保监局局长慕福明谈行业发展粗放病理说

随着保险监管部门深入治理整顿保险市场,＂出重拳＂打击违法违规行为,市场上最突出的问题得到有效遏制。但在市场秩序总体好转的同时,仍有一部分违法违规行为屡查屡犯,变相出现。有的从保费收入切入,通过虚挂应收、虚假批退等方式造成保费收入流失。有的在费用领域,     

对涉嫌传销保险专业中介机构的监管建议

近期,个别保险专业中介机构涉嫌以传销营销模式开展业务,给保险市场带来巨大风险隐患,遏制这类严重违法违规行为是保险监管部门一项极为紧迫和重要的监管任务,保监会连续下发多个文件,要求对个别保险专业中介机构涉嫌以传销营销模式开展业务等严重违法违规行为进行严厉打击。     

中国保险业对外开放的现状、问题及政策建议

我国保险业对外开放以来,外资保险机构在推动我国保险市场规范发展方面发挥了积极作用,目前对我国保险市场的整体影响有限,但未来增长及综合经营可能会给我们带来挑战,且其自身也存在一些违法违规行为。对此,我国应增强保险监管能力,大力推进保险市场和保险机构改革,在保证金融安全的基础上充分发挥外资保险公司的作用。     

贵在自律——潍坊市保险同业公会发挥职能作用

1998年以来，随着中国保险监督臂理委员会的建立。原各级人民银行相继从保险监管岗位上退出，但至今地方级保险监管机构仍处于空白，保险市场监管力度相对减弱，违规行为有所抬头。因此，建立保险行业自律组织，加强行业自律管理，规范保险市场秩序，已成为亟待解决的问题。在这方面潍坊市保险同业公会创造摸索了一套经验：     

论政府在农业巨灾保险体系中的角色定位

农业巨灾保险的公共产品特性以及我国所处的经济发展阶段决定了政府在构建农业巨灾保险体系中的主导地位,但由于政府的缺位,使得我国的保险法规、保险机构、财政支持和救助方式等方面与农业巨灾保险体系建设的要求相差甚远,农业巨灾保险体系亟待完善。为了加快我国的农业巨灾保险体系建设,政府需要在法律制定、资金保障、保险市场拓展、运作模式、辅助风险控制等方面做出积极的努力。     

政府干预、寻租竞争与农业保险的市场运作——基于江苏省淮安市的调查

"政府引导、市场运作"是近年来我国政策性农业保险推行的基本原则。尽管这种安排有助于发挥政府和市场两方面的力量,但是却赋予了地方政府对农业保险市场过大的干预权限。江苏淮安市农业保险市场的案例表明,政府的干预会导致寻租竞争现象的产生,最终损害农业保险的运行效率。为完善农业保险市场运作机制,我国可借鉴美国的经验,统筹农业保险监管职能,合理约束地方政府权限,完善基础数据信息,建立服务评价机制。     

国内

证监会将强化新股发行中的市场约束 中国证监会副主席刘新华3日表示,当前和今后一段时期,中国证监会将着力改善市场体系的结构,大力发展债券市场,在股票发行的询价、定价、发行承销等过程中进一步强化市场约束,同时还要加快完善诚信数据库和诚信监管机制,丰富诚信监管的执法手段,依法严惩内幕交易、虚假信息披露、市场操纵等违法违规行为。     

关于财产保险行业套费行为的审计案例分析

随着保险市场竞争的日趋激烈,保费的获取成本不断攀升,虚列费用补贴市场成为各保险主体普遍存在且屡查屡犯的问题。长期以来,保险公司套取费用是监管机构和内部审计部门共同关注的焦点,本文通过介绍内部审计案例成果,总结审计如何在防范套取费用风险方面发挥作用。保险行业套取费用,主要是指各保险主体盲目地拼规模、抢份额,忽视内控合规和风险管控,虚列费用套取资金支付展业成本等违法违规行为。     

北美寿险体系成功因素探析

我国保险业产生于计划经济时代，无论是从保险公司组织结构、市场是从保险公司组织结构、市场运作经验来看，还是从保险体系监管的完善程度来看，都无法跟国外相比，这就迫切需要我们学习和借鉴国外保险公司和保险监管体系的运作机制，来规范我国的保险运作机制，下面从北美寿险角度，对北美精算师、北美保险公司、北美保险监管体系等三个方面进行分析，剖析北美商业保险体系成功运作的原因，并提出对我国建立完善的保险运作体系的建议。     

推进山东省农业保险发展的对策

当前山东省农业保险在保费规模、保险深度、保险密度以及保障范围方面都与先进省份存在较大差距,其中既有农业保险发展的制度环境不完善、政策支持方式单一等原因,也存在农业保险市场供求主体不足、组织形式单一、市场竞争度低和供求矛盾严重等问题。基于此,需从农业保险发展的制度框架、政策支持体系和农业保险市场体系建设三个方面加以改进,以促进山东省农业保险的持续健康发展,为山东省农业生产和农村经济的发展提供风险保障。     

Debt and Taxes and Uncertainty

With a graduated personal tax schedule, Miller showed that there could be an equilibrium debt supply for the corporate sector as a whole. In the presence of uncertainty there is also a unique debt/equity ratio for each individual firm, and this ratio is related to the firm's operational risk characteristics. However, if firms merge and spin off in response to tax incentives, the identity of firms is ambiguous and only the corporate sector is a meaningful construct. These arguments are developed in both discrete and continuous models that employ extensions of the arbitrage-free pricing theory.     

教育与资本怎样的前景怎样的现实

来自政府的声音: "动员各种社会资源,发展教育" 此次论坛上财政部长助理张少春的发言是最受关注的发言之一.他的演讲传达出的信息有这样几方面:第一,谈到现实,他认为全社会对教育的巨大需求与我国公共投入不足已成为我国教育事业发展的突出矛盾.近年来,以公共部门投入为主,多渠道筹措教育经费的教育投入机制成为解决这一问题的重要途径,也使得公共部门与私营部门在教育领域的合作日益密切.第二,谈到前景,他认为,1.中国经济持续、快速的增长对高技能人才产生巨大的需求,这为私营部门的参与提供了广阔空间.2.随着公共财政职能的不断完善,财政资金将在各项教育事业中重新进行分配,进一步优化财政支出结构,提高资金的使用效率.在"十一五"期间,我国将把公共支出的重点转移到农村.我们将逐步把全体农村适龄儿童的义务教育全部纳入公共财政体制.     

East and west and north and south : A preliminary model

The Brandt report and other proposals for a new North-South world order continue to be the focus of lively debate, yet it is often argued that little concrete has emerged from their recommendations. A major reason for this, the author argues, is that the East-West conflict component is not sufficiently taken into consideration-East-West tensions are a severe constraint on and a determining factor of North-South relations. Using influence diagrams, the author develops a flexible framework for discussion and assessment of N/S-E/W relations.     

Director gender and mergers and acquisitions

Does director gender influence CEO empire building? Does it affect the bid premium paid for target firms? Less overconfident female directors less overestimate merger gains. As a result, firms with female directors are less likely to make acquisitions and if they do, pay lower bid premia. Using acquisition bids by S&P 1500 companies during 1997–2009 we find that each additional female director is associated with 7.6% fewer bids, and each additional female director on a bidder board reduces the bid premium paid by 15.4%. Our findings support the notion that female directors help create shareholder value through their influence on acquisition decisions. We also discuss other possible interpretations of our findings.     

Political corruption and mergers and acquisitions

This research examines the relation between political corruption and mergers and acquisitions (M&As). We find that local corruption increases firm acquisitiveness but decreases firm targetiveness. The levels of corruption in acquirer areas relate positively to the bid premiums and negatively to the likelihood of deal completion. Corruption motivates acquiring firms to use excess cash for payment, which mitigates the negative effect of corruption on acquirer shareholder value. The evidence indicates that acquisitions help acquiring firms convert cash into hard-to-extract assets and relocate assets from the high to low corruption areas, thereby shielding their liquid assets from expropriation by local officials.     

Trust and cross-border mergers and acquisitions

A number of studies suggest that social trust matters for investment. Using different measures of trust from World Values Survey, we show that countries where people display higher levels of trust engage in more cross-border M&A activities. When they do, these acquirers pay lower premiums. To the extent that these acquirers also tend to engage in larger acquisitions as well, our findings suggest that a larger selection pool of potential targets and higher value targets enable these acquirers to negotiate for lower premiums. We do not find evidence of the significant effect for target country trust levels. Hence, trust may benefit those acquiring firms in cross-border transactions.     

Tournament-based incentives and mergers and acquisitions

This research examines the relation between tournament-based incentives, which are proxied by the difference between a firm's CEO pay and the median pay of the senior managers, and mergers and acquisitions (M&As). We find that tournament-based incentives are positively related to firm acquisitiveness and acquiring firms' stock and operating performance. Further analysis indicates that positive acquisition performance increases the likelihood of the CEO being promoted from inside the acquiring firm. Our evidence is consistent with the view that tournament-based incentives motivate acquiring firms' managers to make greater efforts and take more risk that result in superior acquisition performance.     

Corporate Innovations and Mergers and Acquisitions

Using a large and unique patent‐merger data set over the period 1984 to 2006, we show that companies with large patent portfolios and low R&D expenses are acquirers, while companies with high R&D expenses and slow growth in patent output are targets. Further, technological overlap between firm pairs has a positive effect on transaction incidence, and this effect is reduced for firm pairs that overlap in product markets. We also show that acquirers with prior technological linkage to their target firms produce more patents afterwards. We conclude that synergies obtained from combining innovation capabilities are important drivers of acquisitions.