巅峰激情&璀璨岁月

富有朝气，让人振奋，充满激情，时尚而不失稳重，并将古典的浪漫元素和新的时尚欲望结合，是2003MARKFAIRWHALE高级休闲男装商务系列的设计要点。我把这次发布定名为“颠峰激情”，是把我所欣赏的活跃在世界艺术殿堂颠峰的名流们，以及他们创造的独特经典文化的魅力表达出来。     

Income Tax Effects on Asset Valuation and Managerial Analysis

Under an income tax structure that treats profits and losses unequally, the tax function is non-linear. This note examines how this non-linearity affects asset valuation and related managerial analyses.     

基金管理公司股权结构与基金绩效研究

本研究采用2004～2010年期间的开放式股票型基金为样本,应用Carhart的四因子模型作为衡量基金投资质量与绩效的评价指标,以基金管理公司的股权结构为切入点,研究基金管理公司组织与股权结构对旗下基金绩效的影响。在控制了基金特征和基金经理特征后,我们发现国有控股和中外合资基金管理公司旗下的基金绩效较好。表明我国基金行业存在国有资本的帮助之手效应;此外,外资参股有利于提高基金业绩。     

Disclosure of Proxy Voting Information by Australian Managed Investment Schemes

The US Securities and Exchange Commission requires registered management investment companies to disclose how they vote proxies relating to portfolio securities they hold. The primary purpose of this rule is to enable fund investors to monitor the role of institutional shareholders in the corporate governance practices of public companies. In Australia, despite reform proposals, there are no regulations requiring institutional investors to report proxy voting procedures and practices. There is little evidence of voluntary disclosure of proxy voting by Australian managed investment schemes in equities, indicating that there are costs involved in such disclosure.     

THE CURSE OF DEMOCRACY AS AN INSTRUMENT OF REFORM IN COLLAPSED COMMUNIST ECONOMIES

I will begin with some general remarks on democracy. Then, I will discuss democracy as an instrument of reform in a collapsed communist economy.     

A SIMPLISTIC GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM THEORY OF CORRUPTION

The author's simplistic view of corruption is that all politicians and government officials—like everyone else—are constrained self-maximizers. They therefore establish or maintain regulations and controls with the intent to facilitate corruption, which then becomes a source of income for them. Under private enterprise, where resources are transferable and movable, competition limits the ability to corrupt. However, in state enterprises, limiting corruption through competition is difficult. Corruption can help offset the inefficiencies of a communist or hierarchical system, as the economy makes a transition toward private property. But the danger is that corruption will become institutionalized and develop well-defined, transferable rights. Once that happens, the economy gets stuck there, as it has in India. Thus, in reforming a communist system—as that of China—into a private property system, gradualism will not do.     

The valuation significance of exit values: A contingent-claim analysis*

Abstract. The owner of an asset can abandon its use for resale value provided that a secondary market exists for the asset. The abandonment alternative adds a standby value to the asset. This paper studies the implications of the abandonment alternative for asset valuation. The basic idea is that a real asset can be likened to a call option on the larger of the asset's use value or its exit value. It is shown that a real asset can be valued as the sum of its discounted operating cash flows (or savings) and a put option on the operating cash flows, with an exercise price equal to the asset's exit value. This makes asset exit values relevant to the valuation of the firm's assets and liabilities. The valuation relevance of exit values in four settings, loan guarantees, mergers, spinoffs, and asset substitutions, is illustrated. Résumé. Le propriétaire d'un bien peut en céder l'utilisation en contrepartie de sa valeur de revente, à condition qu'il existe un marché secondaire pour le bien en question. Cette possibilité de cession ajoute au bien une valeur d'usage. L'auteur étudie les conséquences de cette possibilité de cession sur l'evaluation du bien. Fondamentalement, un bien réel peut être assimilé à une option d'achat sur la plus élevée de deux valeurs: la valeur d'usage du bien ou sa valeur de sortie. L'auteur démontre qu'un bien réel peut être évalué comme étant la somme des flux monétaires (ou des économies) actualisés tirés de son exploitation et d'une option de vente sur les flux monétaires tirés de l'exploitation, avec un prix de levée égal à la valeur de sortie du bien. Ainsi les valeurs de sortie des biens sont-elles pertinentes à l'evaluation des éléments d'actif et de passif de l'entreprise. Cette pertinence des valeurs de sortie est illustrée dans quatre cas: les garanties d'emprunt, les fusions, les dédoublements et les substitutions de biens.