The Wealth Effect of Domestic Joint Ventures: Evidence from Taiwan

This study presents important international evidence by examining the wealth effect of domestic joint ventures by Taiwanese firms. In opposite to United States evidence, we find that announcements of domestic joint ventures by Taiwanese firms are, on average, associated with significantly negative abnormal stock returns. We also find that the stock market response to announced domestic joint ventures is significantly positively related to the announcing firms' investment opportunities, size of investment and debt ratio, and is significantly negatively related to the business relatedness variable. In contrast, free cash flow, firm size, relative firm size and managerial ownership are found to have no significant power in explaining the market response. Our results support the investment opportunities, synergy and complementarity hypotheses as well as a broad interpretation of the free cash flow hypothesis, but reject the absolute size, relative size and alignment-of-interests hypotheses. This study makes valuable contributions to the literature by providing the first direct evidence on the role of investment opportunities, synergy and alignment-of-interests in explaining the wealth effect of domestic joint ventures     

Value of Multinationality: Internalization, Managerial Self-interest, and Managerial Compensation

In this paper, we examine the impact of managerial self-interest on the value of multinationality. Since agency theory also suggests that a divergence between the interests of managers and shareholders can be aligned by effective managerial incentive, we also examine the effect of managerial compensation on the value of multinationality. Our results show that for high- Q (Tobin's Q > 1 ) firms, investors do not associate the spending of free cash flow on multinationality with the problem of overinvestments. For high- Q firms, it is also found that the value of multinationality can be enhanced by effective managerial incentives. For low- Q firms (Tobin's Q < 1 ), it is found that the concern of managerial self-interest overwhelms the benefits of internalization, making multinationality a value-decreasing event. For low- Q firms, managerial compensation is also ineffective in promoting value-enhancing foreign direct investments.     

制度变迁的动因与效应分析

就制度变迁概念的各种观点作了较深入的比较分析,同时从利益动因、公平效应、效率效应和自由效应等方面阐述了制度变迁的形成原因。     

Free entry in successive oligopolies

In the present paper, we propose an extension of Spengler's (1950) analysis of successive oligopolies, to study the effects of entry in the downstream and upstream markets. Free entry is analyzed using replica economies à la Debreu and Scarf (1963) . We find that free entry may have different effects in the upstream and in the downstream market. Namely, the usual convergence of the price to the corresponding marginal cost only occurs in the downstream market.     

Managers’ Escalation Behavior in Equity Investment Decisions and the Role of Corporate Governance

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between free cash flows and escalation behavior in the long-term stock buying decisions for the firms listed in Taiwan. The main findings include: (1) Managers tend to exhibit the escalation behavior in the long-term equity investment. (2) There is a positive association between the level of free cash flows and the magnitude of managers’ behavioral escalation. (3) The corporate governance mechanisms play a contributory role in mitigating the escalation behavior. The evidence is robust across subsamples for electronic versus non-electronic industries, growth versus value firms, and loss versus gain firms.     

自由现金流与企业过度投资——基于内外部约束视角的实证研究

在我国转型经济的制度背景下,基于公司内外部约束视角,以我国制造业2001年—2012年主板上市公司为研究对象,研究了自由现金流与企业过度投资的关系,以及公司外部负债融资和内部公司治理机制对于过度投资的约束作用。研究表明:企业留存的过量自由现金流会造成企业的过度投资现象,而企业外部的债务约束以及内部完善的公司治理机制可以较有效的约束这种过度投资现象。结论对于建立约束企业过度投资行为的机制,提高企业投资决策效率具有理论和现实意义。     

论休闲经济研究的理论经济学意义

理论经济学走向科学化的历程至少有三重意蕴:数学化、符号化和心理学化,它直接导致对劳动时间的遮蔽和经济学的非人化.大众法定闲暇时间的增加和居民休闲生活的繁荣,放大了人性的复杂性,澄明了生活方式对于理论经济学的重要性,彰显财富之根--自由时间,从长远来看,迟早将孕育理论经济学的一场彻底革命,即由劳动时间根基转向自由时间根基.     

英文电影片名翻译的方法

影片名就像电影的窗户,既要反映影片的中心内容,还要简短新奇,吸引观众。因此英文电影片名也逐渐成为英语语言研究者关注的一个新课题。英文电影片名的主要特点是简洁生动、通俗易懂、有吸引力。做到这几点就需要我们有很强的翻译技巧,在电影片名翻译中,我们通常用直译、音译和意译。     

浅谈煤矿热交换站循环泵的选型

热交换站中的循环泵是整个采暖系统的核心设备,动力之源,重要性如同一个人的心脏,它的选型正确与否,直接关乎整个采暖系统的运转。本文对作者接触到的几个新建、改建的煤矿热交换站在循环泵选型上存在的误区进行分析,指出解决问题的对策。     

世界贸易组织(WTO)确立与发展的基础

世界贸易组织(以下简称世贸组织)确立与发展的基础是有节制的自由贸易理论,市场经济体制,经济全球化,可持续发展和国际经贸利益的协调。