我国创业板与中小板上市公司成长性的比较研究

本文在国内外学者对企业成长性研究的基础上,构建成长性指标体系,并以09年上市的59家创业板上市公司以及在2006年12月31日已上市的深市上市的221家中小盘上市公司为样本,分别从企业的成长能力、盈利能力成长性以及资金运营能力三个角度对我国创业板与中小板上市公司的成长性进行比较分析,得出创业板企业的成长能力要高于中小板企业,且创业板企业的成长潜力也要大于中小板企业的结论。     

机构投资者持股对创业板上市公司成长性的影响研究

随着机构投资者在公司治理中发挥越来越重要的作用,其对上市公司的业绩产生了越来越显著的影响。成长性是衡量创业板上市公司业绩的重要指标,本文以285家我国创业板上市公司为样本,研究了机构投资者持股对创业板上市公司成长性的影响。研究结果表明,机构投资者持股比例越高,公司成长性越高。     

关于我国创业板市场的思考

创业板市场又称二板市场,相对于股票市场的主板市场而言,是主要为中小型企业,特别是具有高成长性的高科技企业募集资金提供服务的,在服务对象、上市标准、交易制度等方面不同于主板市场的资本市场。     

关于创业板上市公司信息披露中财务分析的几点想法

拟建设的创业板市场是为新经济和高新技术发展服务的市场，是一个注重上市公司高成长性和高质量性的市场，是催生创业企业的市场。然而，以高新技术企业、民营企业、中小型成长性企业为上市主体的创业板，必须切实抓好公司的信息披露。信息披露是联结上市公司、投资者和证券交易所的重要纽带，是规范市场交易行为和保护     

论我国深圳创业板上市公司财务风险的大小——以F分数模型的实证分析为例

2009年10月30日,我国创业板市场大幕正式拉开.虽然创业板上市公司具有高成长性,但是大多数公司资产规模较小,经营业绩不稳定,家族控股现象严重,这些因素都加大了其陷入财务风险的可能性.本文首先介绍创业板上市公司的总体特点,然后以首批上市的28家公司为样本,用实证模型量化公司财务风险大小,以此来推断我国创业板上市公司整体的财务风险状况.     

创业板上市公司成长性评价实证研究

创业板的建立为我国高科技企业提供了融资渠道,促进了我国科学技术的发展。本文选择创业板上市公司成长性分析作为研究对象,希望能够对创业板上市公司真实的成长状况有所揭示。作者通过设计创业板上市公司成长性综合评价模型,从财务性指标与非财务指标两个方面来评价创业板上市公司成长性。财务指标配合非财务指标能够全面系统地评价创业板上市公司的成长性状况。     

我国创业板上市公司的风险及监管研究

创业板作为新兴产物,具有高成长性和高风险性。本文在透彻分析我国创业板上市公司存在风险的基础上,有针对性的提出了对我国创业板上市公司监管的几点建议,以期多管齐下促进创业板上市公司的可持续成长。     

行业成长性与创业板企业高管离职动因分析

创业板是我国扶持中小企业,尤其是高成长性企业发展的融资平台。近年来创业板出现的公司高管大量离职现象,引起了社会的广泛的关注与讨论,也对创业板运行机制提出了挑战。离职代表了高管对企业发展预期的改变,本文从行业成长性视角分析了创业高管个人原因离职动因,揭示了两者潜在的内在相互联系,为完善和发展我国创业板市场机制提供了可借鉴的管理建议。     

超募资金、成长性与创业板上市公司现金股利

长期以来,股利政策作为公司理财活动的重要内容之一,一直是中外理论界和实务界研究和探讨的热点。本文结合国内外相关文献及股利理论,以2009年至2012年创业板上市公司为样本,对创业板上市公司的现金股利政策进行了分析。研究发现,创业板上市公司发放现金股利与超募水平正相关,与公司成长性负相关。     

影响我国创业板上市公司信息披露成分分析

创业板市场具有高成长性,低准入门槛的特性,这些特征使得在创业板上市的公司普遍具有高风险性.本文针对我国创业板市场信息披露体系、监管制度不完善的问题,从创业板上市公司的财务状况、治理结构和无形资产信息等方面,分析影响创业板上市公司信息披露的因素,为完善信息披露体系提出改进建议,帮助创业板上市公司弥补信息披露的"短板".     

Does favorable investor sentiment lead to costly decisions to go public?

We investigate the real effects of decisions to undertake an initial public offering of stock in periods of favorable investor sentiment. Specifically, we examine potential effects of favorable investor sentiment on investment expenditures and how effects on investment affect firm operating performance and value as well as the likelihood of survival. We find that firms going public during periods of favorable sentiment, on average, spend substantially more on investments, especially acquisitions, than firms going public in other periods. The effect of favorable investor sentiment on investment is more pronounced for younger firms. We do not find, however, that the higher investment spending in the wake of favorable sentiment leads to worse operating or stock performance. Stock returns around acquisitions announcements are also positive for firms going public in favorable sentiment periods. The preponderance of our findings indicate that decisions to go public in favorable investor sentiment periods do not lead to corporate investment decisions that harm firm performance and value.     

Shell games: On the value of shell companies

A reverse merger allows a private company to assume the current reporting status of another company that is public. This can be done quickly, without fundraising, road show, underwriter, substantial ownership dilution, or great expense. Private firms that go public via reverse merger are often motivated by the need to quickly secure financing through privately placed stock (PIPEs) and the desire to make acquisitions using stock as payment. In each of the last eight years reverse mergers have outnumbered traditional IPOs as a mechanism for going public, and reporting shell companies are providing fuel for much of this growth. We study 585 trading shell companies over the period 2006-2008. The purpose of most of these shell firms is to find a suitor for a reverse merger agreement. These companies have no systematic risk, operations, or assets, and their share price tends to decline over time. Yet, these firms have investors. When a takeover agreement is consummated, shell company three-month abnormal returns are 48.1%. We argue that this exceptional return is compensation to investors for shell stock illiquidity and the uncertainty of finding a reverse merger suitor. We show that shell company returns are much greater at the consummation of a merger than those of a similar entity that in dollar terms is more popular among investors — Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs).     

股市“隐形人”

上市,一直被赋以"催生千万富翁"的光环。资本市场一夜暴富的神化不可尽数。然而,并不是每一个上市的故事都是完美的童话,有时候,上市"后时代"也许是噩梦的开始。信息披露不完整、不及时,公司业绩不理想,涉嫌信息造假等诸多因素,都可能将上市公司推向难已逾越的深渊,沦为"僵尸公司"。     

The power of control: the acquisition decisions of newly public dual-class firms

Many private firms that go public opt for a dual-class share structure which gives insiders stronger voting power, at the expense of shareholder democracy. We examine how the dual-class structure influences the merger decisions of newly public firms, which have a notable appetite for acquisitions. Specifically, we compare acquisition activity, method of payment choice, and the long-run value implications of acquisitions by newly public single-class and dual-class US companies. Our results show that dual-class IPO firms make relatively more acquisitions in innovative industries and are less likely to pay with stock as compared to single-class IPO firms. The reluctance of dual-class firms to pay with stock is positively related to the wedge between the insiders’ voting rights and cash-flow rights. We also find that newly-public dual-class acquirers perform better in the long-run than newly-public single-class acquirers, mainly due to dual-class acquisitions in innovative industries. Our multivariate analysis shows that these findings hold after controlling for relevant risk factors associated with industry, deal, and firm specific characteristics. These results suggest that the dual class structure may enable newly-public firms to make better M&A decisions after going public.     

Transparency in the food aisle: the influence of procedural justice on views about labeling GM foods

Issues of transparency lay at the center of the debate surrounding the labeling of genetically modified (GM) food products in the USA. These issues include not only the argument that consumers should be allowed to make purchasing choices based on full disclosure of product ingredients but also that they should have access to the process that makes decisions about labeling. This study examines the influence of procedural justice on perceived decision legitimacy and decision support regarding GM food labeling decisions. Using a 2 × 2 factorial design, participants recruited from an online Qualtrics panel (N = 450) were randomly assigned to read a fictitious news article about an agricultural company’s decision about whether to label their food products as having GM ingredients. Articles varied by the company’s labeling decision (label versus no label) and whether the company listened to public input prior to making the decision (public input versus no public input). The results showed significant main effects on decision support and perceived legitimacy for articles that mentioned public input. Specifically, when participants read articles stating that the company made its decision after listening to public input, they were more supportive of the decision and perceived the decision as more legitimate. Moreover, this main effect occurred irrespective of whether or not the company’s decision was to label GM foods. Our results confirm the influence of procedural justice perceptions in fostering support and perceived legitimacy for controversial risk-related decisions.     

Company Stock in Defined Contribution Plans: Evidence from Proxy Voting

I examine whether firms’ decisions to offer company stock in defined contribution (DC) plans are explained by managers’ corporate control motives. Using a large sample of proxy voting outcomes, I find that employee ownership in DC plans is significantly and positively associated with the level of voting support for management‐sponsored proposals. This suggests that managers encourage employee DC holdings in company stock in order to receive higher voting support in favor of management. The effects of employee ownership on voting outcomes are significantly greater in specific subsamples where employee vote is more important to management.     

Going public in the 1980s: Evidence from Sweden

The paper explores the going public decision in a sample of family-owned corporations in Sweden, 1970–1991. the issuers' motivations for going public are documented and contrasted with economic theory. We find that the average firm is old, that a significant portion of the shares are sold by existing shareholders, that most going public activity took place after an exceptionally sharp stock price increase, and that going public activity is not related to the business cycle. the findings suggest that firms were taken public by their owners who wanted to liquidate their investment to finance consumption or portfolio diversification. the findings strike the common view that firms go public to finance growth. Data from other European countries exhibit similar patterns and suggest that our findings for Sweden may extend to other markets as well.     

Investor Behavior and the Benefits of Direct Stock Ownership

Using an experiment to rule out reverse causality, we examine whether a small investment in a company's stock leads investors to purchase more of the company's products and adopt other views and preferences that benefit the company. We preregister our research methods, hypotheses, and supplemental analyses via the Journal of Accounting Research’s registration‐based editorial process. We find little evidence consistent with these hypotheses for the average investor in our sample using our planned univariate hypothesis tests, and planned Bayesian parameter estimation shows substantial downward belief revision for more optimistic ex ante expectations of the treatment effects. In planned supplemental analyses, however, we do find that the effects of ownership on product purchase behavior and on regulatory preferences are intuitively stronger for certain subgroups of investors—namely, for investors who are most likely to purchase the types of products offered by the company and for investors who are most likely to vote on political matters. The results contribute to our understanding of the benefits of direct stock ownership and are informative to public company managers and directors.     

Effects of managerial overconfidence and ability on going-concern decisions and auditor turnover

I examine how the appearance of managerial overconfidence and managerial ability affect 1) auditors' decisions to issue a going concern opinion and 2) auditor dismissal rates after issuing a going concern opinion. Managerial attributes are likely to have an influence on auditors' decisions because auditors obtain and evaluate information about client management's remedy plans when there is substantial doubt about the entity's ability to continue as a going concern. While prior literature on managerial overconfidence classifies all managers who demonstrate overconfident behaviors in one group, I argue that the literature needs to take managerial ability into consideration when measuring overconfidence. I find that auditors are more likely to issue a going concern opinion to clients with seemingly overconfident managers only when the management who appears overconfident is also incompetent. I also find that auditors are more likely to be dismissed after issuance of a going concern opinion when the client company has seemingly overconfident management. Finally, I find that the association between managerial overconfidence and auditor dismissal subsequent to issuance of a going concern opinion is stronger when management is relatively more powerful than the company's audit committee.     

A survey of corporate perceptions of short-termism among analysts and fund managers

There is a popularly held view that institutional investors and stockbrokers' analysts take a short-term view when making or advising on investment decisions. Short-termism is held to be a particular problem for economies such as the US and the UK which rely heavily on stock exchanges to price securities and help reallocate resources through take-over. This is deemed to be detrimental to long-term corporate development and overall economic growth. The paper seeks to show the extent to which directors of large UK companies perceive that analysts and institutional investors evaluate their companies on short-term criteria. The role of institutional investors in the context of short-termism is important because they own a large proportion of equity. The paper then seeks to explain why some company directors appear to believe in short-termism while others do not. Hence the paper is not investigating whether ‘the City’ is short-termist but is examining the reasons why directors of large publicly quoted companies believe ‘the City’ is or is not short-termist about their company. The conclusion of this paper is that there is some evidence to support the view that ‘the City’ is perceived as being short-termist towards some companies but that the phenomenon is more narrowly focused and of lesser importance than its supporters claim.