IFRS、财务分析师、机构投资者和权益资本成本——基于信息治理观视角

本文基于信息治理观视角,探讨新会计准则实施前后,财务分析师和机构投资者对权益资本成本的影响。研究发现,新会计准则实施后,上市公司的权益资本成本增加,但是,由于财务分析师和机构投资者的信息治理功能,上市公司的权益资本成本会降低,并且发现二者以相互替代的方式产生影响。进一步分析发现,在采用新会计准则后,财务分析师和机构投资者均能减少应计盈余管理行为。这支持了本文的会计信息治理观,表明财务分析师和机构投资者具有降低公司信息风险的作用。     

媒体曝光度、信息披露环境与权益资本成本

媒体发挥着公司治理和信息传播的双重作用,这有助于减少投资者与公司间的信息不对称,而信息不对称程度的降低会减少公司的融资成本。本文选取2007年之前上市A股公司为样本,实证检验了媒体曝光度对权益资本成本的影响。研究发现媒体报道有助于降低公司权益资本成本。研究还进一步发现在市场化程度越低的地区,媒体报道对权益资本成本的影响力越强;在非国有企业中,机构投资者持股比例越高,媒体报道对权益资本成本的影响力越强。     

机构投资者、信息披露与盈余管理

本文以反映公司治理效率的信息披露与盈余管理作为关注要点,深入研究了机构投资者持股的治理效果问题.本文研究表明,机构投资者持股公司的盈余管理程度显著低于无机构投资者持股公司,并且盈余管理程度随着机构投资者持股的增加而显著降低.本文还检验了机构投资者持股能否有效提高公司信息披露的质量,发现机构投资者持股公司的信息披露质量显著高于无机构投资者持股公司,而且信息披露质量随着机构投资者持股的增加而提高.本文还发现,机构投资者持股公司信息披露对于盈余管理的监控作用更为显著,并且随着机构投资者持股的增加促进作用更为明显.以上发现意味着目前我国机构投资者已经参与到公司治理中,并在一定程度上发挥了积极的治理作用.     

机构投资者、税收征管与企业避税

本文研究机构投资者对企业避税的因果关系影响。有鉴于机构投资者和企业避税之间的内生性问题,本文选择机构投资者与被投资上市公司之间的空间距离作为机构持股的工具变量,我们发现在控制内生性之后,机构投资者对企业避税行为仍然存在明显的制约作用;进一步研究发现机构投资者与税收征管在避税上存在互为补充的关系,同时机构投资者能通过抑制企业避税提升公司价值,而这一效应在税收征管强的地区更为明显。本文提供了机构投资者对企业避税影响的因果关系证据,从而拓展了机构投资者公司治理作用的文献,对于抑制管理层的机会主义倾向和治理企业避税也有重要的实践意义。     

企业税收规避与权益资本成本

本文以2008～2015年沪深A股上市非金融企业为研究样本,结合机构投资者异质性对企业税收规避与权益资本成本间的关系进行实证检验。研究发现:企业税收规避程度越高,其权益资本成本也相应提高;经营绩效是税收规避影响权益资本成本的一个中介路径,即高程度的避税活动会损害企业的经营绩效从而提高权益资本成本;结合机构投资者异质性发现,相比交易性机构投资者,稳定性机构投资者更能发挥治理作用,弱化税收规避对权益资本成本的负面影响。本文的研究丰富了税收规避与权益资本成本方面的研究,为新兴加转轨时期我国上市公司避税行为的经济后果提供了新的经验证据,同时也可为企业、政府和机构投资者提供一定的参考。     

信息披露、外部监督与资本成本——基于中小企业板的实证分析

本文使用深圳证券交易所中小板上市公司2012-2016年度的样本资料,研究信息披露水平与资本成本的关系,与大部分学者的观点一样,分析表明信息披露水平与资本成本负相关.从外部社会监督的角度来看,新闻媒体的关注、机构投资者、分析师等外部治理因素对公司权益资本成本有重大的制约作用.研究结果表明,分析师、机构投资者以及媒体作为我国资本市场极为重要的社会外部监督力量,能够削弱信息披露水平对企业资本成本的敏感度,也就是说,外部监督力量越强,信息披露水平对权益资本成本的影响越小.     

论机构投资者持股对权益资本成本的影响

本文对机构投资者持股与权益资本成本之间关系的相关文献进行梳理,发现不同的学者研究发现机构投资者在公司治理中可能存在积极主义或者消极主义行为,对权益资本成本的影响也不尽相同。基于对文献的梳理,提出对未来相关研究的展望。     

成分股调整改变企业权益资本成本了吗——兼论产权性质的影响

成分股调整是否具有信息含量是长久以来争议的话题.本文探究了成分股调整对权益资本成本的影响及其信息中介机制,并考察了不同产权性质企业成分股调整的信息含量差异.本文首先通过公司融资选择模型(Tirole,2010)刻画了成分股调整对权益资本成本的影响,并拓展论证了产权性质调节效应和投资者异质信念中介效应.其次,本文经双重差分模型实证研究发现:(1)调入(调出)股票的权益资本成本下降(上升);(2)由于信息披露质量差异导致认证成本的不同,国有企业权益资本成本改变更为明显;(3)投资者异质信念发挥了部分中介作用,佐证了信息含量假说.本文结合中国独特的产权制度验证了成分股调整具有信息含量,为进一步完善成分股调整制度提供了理论依据.     

成分股调整改变企业权益资本成本了吗——兼论产权性质的影响

成分股调整是否具有信息含量是长久以来争议的话题.本文探究了成分股调整对权益资本成本的影响及其信息中介机制,并考察了不同产权性质企业成分股调整的信息含量差异.本文首先通过公司融资选择模型(Tirole,2010)刻画了成分股调整对权益资本成本的影响,并拓展论证了产权性质调节效应和投资者异质信念中介效应.其次,本文经双重差分模型实证研究发现:(1)调入(调出)股票的权益资本成本下降(上升);(2)由于信息披露质量差异导致认证成本的不同,国有企业权益资本成本改变更为明显;(3)投资者异质信念发挥了部分中介作用,佐证了信息含量假说.本文结合中国独特的产权制度验证了成分股调整具有信息含量,为进一步完善成分股调整制度提供了理论依据.     

社会责任报告降低了企业权益资本成本吗?——来自中国资本市场的经验证据

本文以上市公司披露社会责任报告的动机为出发点,以权益资本成本为落脚点,探讨社会责任报告对企业权益资本成本的影响及作用机制。研究表明,公司披露社会责任报告有助于降低企业的权益资本成本,并且社会责任报告披露对权益资本成本的影响存在"首次披露"效应;但是对于同样披露了社会责任报告的公司而言,社会责任报告质量的高低对权益资本成本的影响并不显著,机构投资者持股比例对于社会责任报告与权益资本成本的关系也无显著影响。这说明我国投资者已经开始关注社会责任报告信息披露,投资者普遍认为发布社会责任报告传递的是一个有利的信号,但是由于我国企业社会责任报告的质量普遍较低,这些报告给投资者传递的信号并没能降低他们对企业风险的评估。     

Short-sale refinancing and price adjustment speed to bad news: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China

Short selling may accelerate stock price adjustment to negative news. However, the literature provides mixed evidence for this prediction. Using short-sale refinancing and a staggered difference-in-differences (DID) model, this paper explores the effect of short selling on stock price adjustment. Our results show that (1) short-sale refinancing improves the speed of stock price adjustment to negative news. This result holds after we control for endogeneity. (2) The positive relationship between short-sale refinancing and stock price adjustment speed is significant in subsamples of stocks with higher earnings management or lower accuracy of analyst forecasts, indicating that firms with more opaque information are more likely to be targeted by short sellers. In subsamples of stocks with a higher ownership concentration or lower ownership by institutional investors, short selling is more likely to increase the speed of stock price adjustment, indicating that ownership structure may influence negative news mining. (3) As short-sale refinancing exacerbates the absorption of bad news by stock prices, it increases crash risk. This study enriches the research on the economic consequences of short selling and provides empirical evidence supporting regulations on short selling in China.     

Cost accounting standard and cost accounting systems in Japan. Lessons from the past - recovering lost traditions

This paper aims to show two things. The first is how Japanese culture has contributed to the development of Japanese cost accounting history. The second is to reveal the research possibilities of cost accounting history. This paper also reviews the salient features of several important examples of these aspects of cost accounting practice in Japan. It therefore explores, through some practical illustrations, how and why Japanese cost accounting differs from that found in the West.     

Guidelines for Manuscripts Submitted to The China Journal of Accounting Research

【正】The China Journal of Accounting Research‘‘CJAR’’(ISSN 1755-3091)publishes quarterly.It contains peer-reviewed articles and commentaries on accounting,auditin...     

Shared Standard Setting in the Public Interest:A Strong Model

正The last two decades have been a definitive era in the evolution of the accountancy profession.In the wake of major corporate scandals at the turn of the century,an international public debate arose on the need for more effective and well-considered regulation;this debate then reignited during the global financial and sovereign debt crises.     

HOW TO PUT TOGETHER A COMPLETE PACKAGE

正Many Institute members know they cannot rely purely on technical knowledge and business acumen to remain competitive.As soft skills are increasingly important,Jemelyn Yadao finds out how CPAs can maintain     

Guidelines for Manuscripts Submitted to The China Journal of Accounting Research

正The China Journal of Accounting Research"CJAR"(ISSN 1755-3091)publishes quarterly.It contains peer-reviewed articles and commentaries on accounting,auditing and corporate governance issues that relate to the greater China region.We welcome the submission of both theoretical and empirical research papers pertinent to researchers,regulators and practitioners.Authors should note:     

The China puzzle: Opportunities for accounting research

How can China achieve phenomenal economic growth despite what is considered as 'weak' institutions in market-based economies? Xu(2011) provides a framework to u...     

Bayesian Premium Rating with Latent Structure

We propose a fully Bayesian approach to non-life risk premium rating, based on hierarchical models with latent variables for both claim frequency and claim size. Inference is based on the joint posterior distribution and is performed by Markov Chain Monte Carlo. Rather than plug-in point estimates of all unknown parameters, we take into account all sources of uncertainty simultaneously when the model is used to predict claims and estimate risk premiums. Several models are fitted to both a simulated dataset and a small portfolio regarding theft from cars. We show that interaction among latent variables can improve predictions significantly. We also investigate when interaction is not necessary. We compare our results with those obtained under a standard generalized linear model and show through numerical simulation that geographically located and spatially interacting latent variables can successfully compensate for missing covariates. However, when applied to the real portfolio data, the proposed models are not better than standard models due to the lack of spatial structure in the data.     

Aims and Scope

<正>The focus of the China Journal of Accounting Research is to publish theoretical and empirical research papers that use contemporary research methodologies to...     

Income smoothing and the cost of debt

The literature on income smoothing focuses on the effect of earnings smoothing on the equity market.This paper investigates the effect of income smoothing on th...