The relationship between stock returns and volatility in international stock markets

This study examines the relationship between expected stock returns and volatility in the 12 largest international stock markets during January 1980 to December 2001. Consistent with most previous studies, we find a positive but insignificant relationship during the sample period for the majority of the markets based on parametric EGARCH-M models. However, using a flexible semiparametric specification of conditional variance, we find evidence of a significant negative relationship between expected returns and volatility in 6 out of the 12 markets. The results lend some support to the recent claim [Bekaert, G., Wu, G., 2000. Asymmetric volatility and risk in equity markets. Review of Financial Studies 13, 1–42; Whitelaw, R., 2000. Stock market risk and return: an empirical equilibrium approach. Review of Financial Studies 13, 521–547] that stock market returns are negatively correlated with stock market volatility.     

资产评估:不是"标准产品"

编者按: 资产评估业务承揽中的压价竞争,严重影响了资产评估服务市场的规范运行,也严重损害行业的形象.自然引起业内外人士的极大关注本期将就此问题展开讨论.     

关于无形资产评估中折现率确定方法的探讨

折现率的预测和确定是无形资产评估中的难点问题之一。由于折现率是影响评估结果准确度的重要参数,所以在当前对高质量资产评估结果的需求日益迫切的背景下,有必要再度探讨无形资产折现率确定方法的相关问题。本文提出应根据引起无形资产评估的具体情况来选择合理的折现率确定方法;同时也提出了无形资产折现率确定方法运用和发展的几点建议:科学性和合理性相结合、静态分析与动态分析相结合、因素分析与模型分析相结合。     

运用成本法进行珠宝首饰评估时贬值问题的探讨

成本法是珠宝首饰价值评估的重要方法之一.在用成本法进行珠宝首饰价值评估时要充分注意其实体性贬值、功能性贬值及经济性贬值等贬值因素,避免因疏忽与错漏导致评估结论的偏差.     

会计师事务所服务营销体系探讨

为了在日益变化的国际国内环境中求得生存和发展,我国会计师事务所必须充分利用市场营销的方法与手段来扩大自己的市场占有率,从而在竞争中处于优势地位。本文以“7Ps”服务营销组合为理论框架,将营销组合“7Ps”整体作为营销体系,提出建立我国会计师事务所营销体系的方案。     

开展企业文化建设塑造立信长江文化

上海立信长江会计师事务所是2000年6月由立信会计师事务所和长江会计师事务所的注册会计师发起、经上海市财政局批准设立的。立信长江设立后,先后吸收合并上海大明所、信华所、锦科所等中小事务所;又分别吸收上会所、大华所、长信所等的部分注册会计师。随着人员不断增加,规模不断扩大,我们先后在海口、乌鲁木齐、苏州、珠海、杭州市设立分所。分所统一命名为上海立信长江会计师事务所XX分所。2004年底,海南分所改制为成员所——海南立信长江会计师事务所,独立承担法律责任。我所继承中国会计泰斗潘序伦先生倡导的“信以立志、信以守身、信以处事、信以待人”的准则,注重诚信建设和职业道德。     

Middlemen: the good,the bad,and the ugly

We examine the role of a middleman as an expert in markets. A seller's effort determines the quality of the good. Buyers observe neither the seller's effort nor the good's quality. A middleman, after observing a signal about the good's quality, decides whether to purchase it and then to sell it. We show that the presence of a middleman may either reduce or exacerbate the seller's moral hazard problem. We also consider a model with multiple middlemen. We find that the seller's effort is minimized if either the middleman's signal is perfect or the number of middlemen is large.     

Financial statements based bank risk aggregation

One of the major challenges involved in risk aggregation is the lack of risk data. Recently, researchers have found that mapping financial statements into risk types is a satisfactory way to resolve the problem of data shortage and inconsistency. Nevertheless, ignoring off-balance sheet (OBS) items has so far been regarded as the usual practice in risk aggregation, which may lead to deviations in conclusions. Hence, we improve the financial statements based risk aggregation framework by mapping OBS items into risk types. Based on 487 quarterly financial statements from all 16 listed Chinese commercial banks over the period 2007–2014, we empirically study whether the overall impact of OBS activities and the individual impact of each of the OBS risk types on total risk depend on bank size. Moreover, this research divides the sample into two subsets, during and after the subprime crisis, to find out how the subprime crisis affects risks of Chinese banks. Our empirical results show that although OBS credit risk is positively linked to total risk while OBS operational risk is negatively linked to total risk for both large and small banks, the overall impact of OBS activities on total risk depends on bank size. The overall OBS activities are positively related to the large bank’s total risk while they are negatively related to the small bank’s total risk. Besides, we also found that it is the increase of liquidity risk and market risk that leads to the larger total risk of Chinese banks during the subprime crisis.     

农村普惠金融发展空间差异与集聚效应

基于中国农村普惠金融发展的空间地理特征,依据2006-2015年30个省市相关数据,测算农村普惠金融水平;建立空间自回归模型(SLM)和空间误差模型(SEM)检验普惠金融发展空间集聚效应.结果发现:各省市农村普惠金融指数总体呈上升趋势,农村普惠金融发展空间相关性逐年增强,局部空间差异逐渐缩小.普惠金融集聚与农民收入变化之间存在正空间相关性,普惠金融水平的提高能够促进农民收入水平的提高.鉴此,应加强区域空间金融合作,提高保险业普惠度;加强地方政府之间交流合作,发挥普惠金融集聚辐射作用,推动农民收入水平进一步提高.     

Carbon Disclosure,Financial Transparency,and Agency Cost: Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Listed Companies

Given the constraints on carbon emissions due to their impact on global warming, carbon disclosure has become an important way to deliver signals to the market. We examine the benefits associated with carbon disclosure from the standpoint of corporate social responsibility (CSR) for China’s manufacturing industries from 2010 to 2014. We divide corporations into heavily polluting and non-heavily polluting groups in order to control the industry factor. Based on the Principal-Agent Theory, we empirically test the relationship between carbon disclosure and financial transparency, and we evaluate the effect of carbon disclosure on agency costs and operations. Our results highlight that carbon disclosure is negatively associated with agency costs. However, we do not find enough evidence to prove what role financial transparency plays in the relationship between carbon disclosure and agency cost. Therefore, the influence of financial transparency as a mechanism is not yet clear. This study provides a way to look at the intentions of firms that disclose carbon information, and it also enhances the literature on carbon disclosure and agency costs in China based on Chinese data.