Financial Reporting Quality in Private Equity Backed Companies: The Impact of Ownership Concentration

We empirically show on a sample of 270 unquoted, private equity backed companies that the shareholder structure of private companies impacts the quality of their publicly available accounting information. More precisely, companies in which private equity (PE) investors have a high equity stake produce lower quality accounting information than companies in which PE investors have a low equity stake, after controlling for factors like company size and age. We explain our findings by arguing that PE investors with low equity stakes have a higher need for high quality accounting information whereas PE investors with high equity stakes have other means to closely monitor their portfolio companies. This paper has benefited form discussions with workshop participants at the Max Planck Institute. We specifically want to thank Lorraine Uhlaner and Mike Wright (guest editors), two anonymous referees as well as ignace De Beelde, Wouter De Maeseneire, Marc Deloof, Miguel Meuleman and Lloyd Steier for helpful suggestions. Part of this research was completed when Christof Beuselinck was an FWO Scholar at Ghent University. Financial support from the Fonds of Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Grant G.0012.02) is kindly appreciated. The usual disclaimer applies.     

论中国饭店产业结构优化的宏观目标与路径选择

本文论述了在新的形势下中国饭店产业机构优化的宏观目标与路径的选择，根据目前饭店业的发展态势提议组建“中国旅游饭店(集团)总公司”，阐述了该集团公司的基本组建思路与运行方案，分析了在组建过程中可能遇到的主要障碍，并在此基础上提出了相应的对策建议。     

外国直接投资与我国对外贸易的实证研究

目前关于外国直接投资(FDI)与一国出口贸易间关系的研究已由最初的定性向定量发展,但多数定量分析集中在直接投资与出口的相关因果关系上。本文则利用我国改革开放以来到加入世贸组织之前的数据,对FDI与我国的出口规模、出口产品结构、出口产品竞争力等进行相关性分析。     

中国城乡二元经济结构的刚性持续存在并加剧的成因

在行政、市场共同因素的作用下形成并持续发展的城乡二元经济结构是农村剩余劳动力转移的障碍的主要因素之一,农村剩余劳动力转移的困难反过来又是加剧二元经济结构强度的直接原因,要推行我国二元经济结构的转换,必须依靠政府行为的力量,积极发展“民办型”农村服务体系,加速城镇化建设,发展乡镇企业。     

The market microstructure of central bank intervention

How quickly do central bank intervention operations impact the foreign exchange market? And, do intra-daily market conditions influence the effectiveness of central bank interventions? This paper uses high-frequency intra-daily data to examine the relationship between the efficacy of intervention operations and the “state of the market” at the moment that the operation is made public. The results indicate that some traders typically know that the Fed is intervening at least 1 h prior to the public release of the information in newswire reports. Also, the evidence suggests that the timing of intervention operations matters—interventions that occur during heavy trading volume, that are closely timed to scheduled macro announcements, and that are coordinated with another central bank are the most likely to have large effects.     

Integrated marketing as management of holistic consumer experience

In a bid to combine the two major perspectives (strategic communications and strategic brand management) of Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC), this article proposes a Holistic Consumer Experience Management framework. According to the framework, the key mission of IMC is to effectively manage the mediated impression of and the direct encounter with the brand, so that synergism ensues among all the interrelated elements of IMC, including research and development, manufacturing, price formulation, channel arrangement, consumer service management, marketing message construction, and communication program execution. As such, IMC is capable of enhancing the holistic consumer experience and creating a holistic brand value structure, which can unite the consumer's sensory, emotional, social, and intellectual experiences in a new and positive way.     

Testing trade-off and pecking order theories financing SMEs

This paper explores two of the most important theories behind financial policy in Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs), namely, the pecking order and the trade-off theories. Panel data methodology is used to test empirical hypotheses on a sample of 3,569 Spanish SMEs over a 10-year period dating from 1995 to 2004. Results suggest that both theoretical models help to explain SME capital structure. However, despite finding clear evidence that SMEs follow a funding source hierarchy (pecking order model), our results reveal that greater trust is placed in SMEs that aim to reach target or optimum leverage (trade-off model). This remains true even when SMEs take a long time to reach this level, due to the high transaction costs they have to face. Non-debt tax shields (NDTS), growth opportunities and internal resources all seem to play an important role in determining SME capital structure. Both size and age are also found to be significant factors. Moreover, the empirical evidence obtained confirms that SMEs clearly behave differently to large firms where financing is concerned.

工业智能化对社会经济发展影响的研究趋势

作为第四次工业革命的核心,工业智能化将对社会生产产生颠覆性影响。在全球经济形势不断收紧的当下,世界主要国家不断加大智能生产设备研发投入,旨在通过智能革命实现经济新一轮跃升。对于发展中的中国而言,加速推动工业智能化改造是快速实现经济发展高质量转型,抢占经济发展先机,实现经济赶超的重要途径。在综合梳理工业智能化相关研究文献的基础上,从工业智能化引致的生产效率、劳动就业、收入分配以及产业结构变动出发,系统梳理工业智能化相关研究综述,在此基础上总结当前工业智能化相关研究的不足,并进一步分析该领域可拓展的研究方向。     

省域经济双循环的结构演变及其增长效应——基于IRIOT-MRIO表的双元四循环分解

作为国家的一个地区,省域的经济循环存在省域内、国家和全球三层地理边界,仅进行国内循环和国际循环的分解不能很好地反映其与国内其他省域之间的经济联系,因而有必要对省域经济循环进行更细致的结构分解,然而现有文献对此缺乏研究。本文在国内国际双循环的基础上,根据是否有其他省域参与循环引入单省域多省域双循环,进而对省域经济进行双元四循环的结构分解：单省域参与的国内循环为省内循环,多省域参与的国内循环为省际循环,单省域参与的国际循环为简单国际循环,多省域参与的国际循环为复杂国际循环。基于此,通过构建MRIO-IRIOT表测算出2012、2015、2017年30个样本省域16个行业4种经济循环的产出,用各经济循环的强度（产出占比）来刻画循环结构,并对省域不同行业的循环强度按产值进行加权平均得到各省域各经济循环强度,结果显示：样本期间各省域经济的循环结构存在显著差异,并具有不同的演变趋势;总体上看,循环强度从高到低依次为省内循环、省际循环、复杂国际循环、简单国际循环,呈现出“国内循环为主、国际循环为辅”的发展格局,并具有“国内循环增强、国际循环减弱”的发展态势。进一步考察行业层面的4种经济循环强度变化对行业总产出增长的影响,分析发现：2012年后,4种经济循环对经济增长的贡献从大到小依次为省际循环、复杂国际循环、省内循环、简单国际循环,表明循环结构沿着“以国内大循环为主体”的方向演进,并具有“多省域循环增强、单省域循环减弱,省际循环增强、简单国际循环减弱”的优化趋势;省际循环与复杂国际循环相互强化的效应显著,因而加强地区间的经济联系是推动“国内国际双循环相互促进”的有效路径之一。相比已有文献,本文对省域经济的双元四循环分解拓展和深化了双循环结构的量化分析,从动态角度研究循环结构变化对产出增长的影响有助于深入认识不同循环在经济发展中所起的作用,对国内循环与国际循环相互作用的检验则有利于探求国内国际双循环相互促进的有效路径。本文研究表明,“以国内大循环为主体”的发展格局已基本形成,但还需要进一步强化省际循环,“国内国际双循环相互促进”的实现也需要加强地区间的经济交流和合作。因此,要加快建设全国统一大市场,以地区联动的国内循环质量提升促进国际循环结构升级,进而构建更高层次更高水平的新发展格局。