Institutional investor horizon and stock price synchronicity: Do product market competition and analyst coverage matter?

This paper provides new insights into the relation between institutional investment horizon and stock price synchronicity and investigates whether this relationship depends on the intensity of product market competition and analyst coverage. Based on a sample of French listed companies, we find that long-term (short-term) institutional investors are associated with lower (higher) stock price synchronicity. The results also show that the negative effect of long-term institutional investors is more accentuated for firms in less competitive markets and with high analyst coverage. An additional analysis shows that the synchronicity reduction effect does not vary during the financial crisis. Overall, these findings suggest that unlike their short-term counterparts, long term investors reduce asymmetric information and help disseminate firm-specific information into stock prices.     

城市化进程中的乡村衰落现象：成因及治理——“乡村振兴战略”实施视角的分析

党的十九大报告提出了“实施乡村振兴战略”。乡村振兴是“中国梦”不可或缺的组成部分，城市化进程中的乡村衰落现象不容忽视，乡村问题的解决关系到乡村振兴战略能否实现和现代乡村能否建成。为此，剖析了我国乡村衰落的成因，探索了乡村振兴战略落实的办法，提出了现代乡村建设的可能路径。     

Strategic insider trading around earnings announcements in Australia

This paper tests, within the Australian setting, whether directors strategically time trades in their own firms, around earnings announcements, in the context of impediments to trading in the immediately preceding period. I show that both signed and unsigned trade activity are insignificantly different from zero in the preceding period, and significantly negative and positive after the event. Further, directors in Australia significantly sell following positive earnings news, and buy after negative news, providing evidence of ‘indirect’ trading. Directors’ trades in the longer-term pre-announcement period are also negatively related to the news content sentiment, contrary to expectation. Finally, I find evidence of positive autocorrelation between directors’ trades over the longer-term past, and those executed after earnings announcements, which, in the absence of the ‘short-swing’ rule in Australia, casts doubt over short-term strategic insider trading, more generally.     

Mining semantic features in current reports for financial distress prediction: Empirical evidence from unlisted public firms in China

It is difficult to predict the financial distress of unlisted public firms due to their longer disclosure cycle of accounting information and more inadequate continuity of market trading information compared to listed firms. In this paper, we propose a framework to predict the financial distress of unlisted public firms using current reports. Specifically, to better represent the meaning of current report texts, we propose a semantic feature extraction method based on a word embedding technology. Empirical results show that current reports contain more effective information for predicting the financial distress of unlisted public firms compared with periodic reports. In addition, semantic features extracted using our proposed method significantly improve the predictive performance, and their enhancing effect is superior to that of topic features and sentiment features. Our study also provides implications for stakeholders such as investors and creditors.     

The effect of investment and withdrawal horizons on myopic loss aversion

Using unique survey data, we find that a longer investment horizon (6–10 years and 11+ years) reduces the likelihood of exhibiting myopic loss aversion (MLA) compared to an investment horizon of less than 2 years. In addition, we find that investors with higher levels of assets under management (AUM) are less likely to exhibit MLA compared to the lowest AUM quartile.     

工程质量监督通报编制的实践与认识

工程质量监督通报是工程质量监督机构履行监督职责的一种重要工具和手段,对规范各方责任主体质量行为,提升工程实体质量,总结监督工作,进一步提高工程质量监督管理水平具有重要的意义。从通报概念、特点、种类等方面入手,结合工程质量监督工作实际,就起草工程质量监督通报浅谈认识与体会。     

环境会计信息披露研究

作为实施可持续发展战略的重要组成部分 ,环境会计为各国政府所普遍重视。当前 ,我国在环境会计领域的研究还相当滞后 ,不但没有建立起符合中国国情的企业环境理论和环境会计准则 ,而且没有建立起完善的环境会计信息系统 ,企业环境会计信息披露严重不足且缺乏可比性和可靠性。本文就环境会计的信息披露工作展开重点讨论。     

信息资源会计报告设计初探

信息资源会计的研究是一个崭新的研究领域。目前,鉴于信息资源本身的特殊性,把它并入会计报表列示的方式说法不一。在对信息资源成本和价值的确认与计量,分析信息资源本身特殊性的基础上,对原有会计报表版面进行调整和修改,将信息资源的综合价值列入报表,为企业投资者和管理当局的决策需要提供更为综合、全面的会计信息。     

以史促论 以论带史 史论结合——宗廷虎先生修辞学史与修辞史研究论析

宗廷虎先生的修辞学史与修辞史研究注重史论结合,取得了丰硕的成果。作为学术史,宗著表现为：史料丰富,搜罗详尽;视域宽广,所涉及的理论范畴丰富;取舍精到,主次分明,将最有理论价值的遗产介绍给学术界。表现在理论上的特征是：全局笼罩,将理论的触角深入到历史阐述的各要素中;现代阐释,以新的理论成果、新的理论框架对历史遗产作出符合原意的解释;卓识独见,表现出许多独创性学术洞见。     

Short Selling Pressure,Stock Price Behavior,and Management Forecast Precision: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Using a natural experiment (Regulation SHO), we show that short selling pressure and consequent stock price behavior have a causal effect on managers’ voluntary disclosure choices. Specifically, we find that managers respond to a positive exogenous shock to short selling pressure and price sensitivity to bad news by reducing the precision of bad news forecasts. This finding on management forecasts appears to be generalizable to other corporate disclosures. In particular, we find that, in response to increased short selling pressure, managers also reduce the readability (or increase the fuzziness) of bad news annual reports. Overall, our results suggest that maintaining the current level of stock prices is an important consideration in managers’ strategic disclosure decisions.