Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance

A combined treatment of corporate finance and corporate governance is herein proposed. Debt and equity are treated not mainly as alternative financial instruments, but rather as alternative governance structures. Debt governance works mainly out of rules, while equity governance allows much greater discretion. A project-financing approach is adopted. I argue that whether a project should be financed by debt or by equity depends principally on the characteristics of the assets. Transaction-cost reasoning supports the use of debt (rules) to finance redeployable assets, while non-redeployable assets are financed by equity (discretion). Experiences with leasing and leveraged buyouts are used to illustrate the argument. The article also compares and contrasts the transaction-cost approach with the agency approach to the study of economic organization.     

外部融资与企业成长关系的实证研究

在金融发达国家，外部融资对行业成长有明显促进作用。实证分析显示，我国企业要想获得更快、更好的发展，一方面要充分利用各种融资渠道，以便提高外部融资在总资产中的比重，另一方面要注意各种融资方式的合理搭配，防止因债务融资与权益融资之比过高而给企业今后的总资产增长带来不利影响。     

公司治理机制对公司透明度的影响——来自中国上市公司的经验数据

越来越多的国家把公司透明度作为衡量公司治理效率的标志 ,并为提高企业透明度做出了种种努力。中国同样面临提高公司透明度的问题 ,然而截至目前 ,国内并没有关于企业透明度与公司治理机制之间关系的实证研究。本文以我国上市公司作为研究对象 ,以自愿性信息披露水平作为公司透明度的替代变量 ,分析了公司治理机制对公司透明度的影响。     

公司治理和企业价值研究最新进展

中国证监会、国家经贸委于2002年1月发布了<上市公司治理准则>,旨在规范上市公司治理结构.据统计,到2003年6月30日,沪深证券交易所的1250家上市公司中共有1244家配备了独立董事,可见公司治理的重要性已经受到广泛认同.然而令人感兴趣的是,这种改善公司治理的举措是否奏效?在中国的制度环境下,公司治理和企业价值之间到底存在着怎样的关系?     

Financial Systems, Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance

Financial systems of industrialised countries are usually classified as being either capital market- or bank-dominated. This paper tries to shed some light on the validity of this distinction. In order to do this, it analyses two specific roles of the financial sector vis-à-vis the enterprise sector: the role of financing or funding business and the role of capital markets and banks, respectively, in the context of corporate governance. Our analysis of the relevant findings in the literature shows that financing patterns are quite similar between countries, while corporate governance systems are quite dissimilar. The paper discusses how these divergent findings could be made compatible with existing theories and what implications they may have for the question of whether there is a tendency for corporate governance systems in different countries to become as similar as corporate financing patterns seem to be.     

绿景地产重组迷离

2010年4月1日，二度易主的绿景地产（000502）再次披衣待嫁，按照当日公司公告的重组预案，绿景地产拟向海航置业控股（集团）有限公司（以下简称“海航控股”）、海航酒店控股集团有限公司（以下简称“海航酒店控股”）定向增发不超过20，000万股股权。以购买其股权资产。机缘巧合，     

Corporate watchdogs

We investigate the role of financial analysts as corporate watchdogs. We show that firms that are subject to intense analyst monitoring are more likely to be investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission or to be the subject of a securities class action. Using cross-sectional variations in managerial entrenchment, we find that this effect is not a reflection of the “dark side of analyst coverage,” analysts pushing executives to misbehave to exceed short-term expectations. Our findings are robust to different identification strategies addressing the endogeneity of analyst coverage decisions.     

构建具有工行特色企业文化的设想

姜建清董事长在去年年底召开的工商银行战略研讨会上提出全行要“加快培育和提升核心竞争力，建设国际一流现代金融企业。”我认为，提升核心竞争力的关键是要架构好工行企业文化体系，建设有特色的工行文化，提高文化力，因为从理论上讲，银行不单是经营信用、产生利润、增加价值的“冰冷机器”，而应是一个“生命体”。要使这个“肌体”充满生机和活力，提高经济增加值，扩大股东回报，必须积累。     

"问诊"企业治理

监审态度与经济周期的错位，常常导致业绩和风险管理失衡的局面。在大家都沉浸在成功的喜悦中时，企业应当考虑采取措施来平衡业绩审查循环，大胆地提出一些尖锐的问题，将是一个好的开始。     

关于基层行企业文化建设问题的思考

近年来,工商银行十分重视企业文化建设。但由于多种因素影响,部分基层行企业文化建设也还存在亟需改进和完善的的方,笔者通过对基层行企业文化建设深入的调研和分析,拟对基层行企业文化建设的实现途径进行一些深入的探讨和研究,以期对发展中的工行企业文化建设作出微薄贡献。     

殳份有限公司董事对公司的侵权责任研究

公司制度发展到今天，大量规定了董事的法定义务，这些法定义务无法由一种法律关系完全推导出来，而董事与公司关系的这种复杂性，造成了董事对公司责任的多样性和模糊性。如何完整规制董事与公司的关系，成为立法上保护公司和股东权益，健进公司治理结构合理化的一项紧迫任务。     

联合授信、企业投资行为与公司价值

本文从企业治理的角度实证研究外部联合授信政策如何通过影响企业内部治理,进而影响企业投资行为及企业价值.研究结果表明,联合授信政策通过强化整个银行体系的信贷管理与约束,透过企业内部治理体系,能有效传导至企业内部,抑制企业过度投资行为,缓解企业代理冲突问题,使企业资金合理配置,最终提升企业价值.     

A Corporate View of Research Needs in Corporate Finance

This paper reports the results of a survey of UK chief financial officers (CFOs) drawn from 72 large, 34 medium and 37 small companies on potentially important research topics in corporate finance. The paper suggests that there are gaps between extant academic research and the CFOs ‘needs for such research. The topics that the 143 CFOs would like to see on the research agenda include: the influence of tax laws on financial decision-making; investor reactions to companies concentrating on short-term gains to the almost total neglect of long-term benefits; effects of changes to the law on pension funds; cash flow planning and forecasting; regulators’ awareness of financial issues; and methods for determining the riskiness of a project. Of least importance to the CFOs are research on the significance of bankruptcy costs, influence of the City on corporate financial operations and impact of seasons on operational decisions. The degree of importance attributed to research topics seems to vary with firm size. In general, the findings of this study are similar to those from a survey of financial managers in the US.     

内部控制、企业投资与公司期权价值!

借鉴实物期权理论,本文考察了内部控制质量对企业投资决策和期权价值的影响。研究发现,良好的公司内部控制有助于公司高管层更好地把握投资机会,提高公司投资支出与投资机会的敏感性;良好的公司内部控制可以提高公司的投资效率,减少非效率投资尤其是过度投资。此外,给定净资产的前提下,如果公司的盈利能力较好,公司的内部控制会增加公司价值与净利润之间的凸增关系即增长期权价值;但是,给定净利润的前提下,如果公司的盈利能力较差,内部控制并不会增加公司价值与净资产之间的凸增关系即清算期权价值。本文的研究有助于更好地理解内部控制对公司价值影响的路径与作用机理,对于有关内部控制强制执行的争议也有重要的启示意义。