Domestic political connections and international expansion: It's not only ‘who you know’ that matters

Former politicians on the board of directors bring to the firm domestic political connections and political knowledge. Previous research has mainly highlighted the role of contacts, without fully recognizing the role of political knowledge accumulated at home. By focusing on the effect of domestic political connections on foreign direct investment, we show that domestic political knowledge also shapes foreign expansion. We argue that contacts provided by former politicians may not be useful for foreign expansion whilst their political knowledge can be of help in countries with discretionary governments and with similar institutional environments to the one of the home country.     

Institutional context as a moderator of the relationship between board structure and acquirer returns

The objective of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of the supervisory role of the board of directors in the context of mergers and acquisitions (M&As). We focus our study on the European case, for which there is no previous exhaustive evidence on this topic. Using information on 985 mergers and acquisitions carried out over the period 2003–2016 by companies in the major European countries, we analyze the influence of supervisory capacity of the board (small size, higher proportion of outsiders and separated Chairperson-CEO positions) on acquirer returns, differentiating between Anglo-Saxon and continental European contexts. Our results confirm that the effectiveness of corporate governance practices depends strongly on their fit with the broader institutional context. Specifically, we find that a smaller size of the board of directors and the separation of the positions of Chairperson and CEO lead to higher acquirer returns in European Anglo-Saxon countries. By contrast, we do not find evidence that any proxy of supervisory capacity of the board significantly improves acquirer returns in the rest of countries.     

Board directors with foreign experience and stock price crash risk: Evidence from China

This study examines the impact of board directors with foreign experience (BDFEs) on stock price crash risk. We find that BDFEs help reduce crash risk. This association is robust to a series of robustness checks, including a firm fixed effects model, controlling for possibly omitted variables, and instrumental variable estimations. Moreover, we find that the negative association between BDFEs and crash risk is more pronounced for firms with more agency problems, weaker corporate governance, and less overall transparency. Our findings suggest that the characteristics of board directors matter in determining stock price crash risk.     

独立学院产权现状分析

该文在界定产权概念的基础上,以教育部直属高校独立学院的产权现状为切入点,指出了现有独立学院产权构成的不规范性,分析了这一现状的危害,并提出了若干解决问题的思路.     

基于复合DEA的我国企业自主创新绩效的评价与分析

首先构建了对我国企业自主创新绩效评价指标体系;在此基础上,运用均值法对原始数据进行了处理;继而,以我国主要行业领域内的14个代表型企业为评价样本,运用数据包络分析方法对其自主创新绩效进行了客观量化实证研究,并对评价结果进行了分析,找出影响我国企业自主创新绩效的关键因素。     

Managerial Equity Ownership and the Demand for Outside Directors

This paper examines the linkage between the use of outside directors and managerial ownership. We conjecture there are two linkages: the standard incentive‐alignment demand for monitoring when managers own little stock and an entrenchment‐amelioration demand when managerial stock ownership is high. As a consequence, we predict the association between managerial ownership and board composition will be nonlinear (U‐shaped if the entrenchment effect is sufficiently pronounced). Using UK data, we find that both quadratic and logarithmic models outperform the simple linear relationship assumed in prior research and that the substitution between managerial ownership and board composition is stronger than hitherto supposed.     

奇瑞自主创新模式的选择与启示

奇瑞汽车是我国自主品牌汽车企业的代表。奇瑞对自主创新模式的选择具有自己的特点,即奇瑞能根据自身发展的实际情况,选取合适的自主创新模式;同时能紧紧抓住国家关于行业发展的政策,加快发展。奇瑞的发展对我国其它自主品牌企业发展都有很重要的借鉴意义。     

提高我国自主创新能力的思考

本文依据当代经济发达国家经济社会发展经验的总结,并从我国当前全面建设小康社会的客观需要出发,分析了提高自主创新能力在国家经济社会发展战略中的核心地位,提出构建体制基础和科技基础以及营造生态环境,是推行自主创新战略的基本措施。     

美国电影业的产业经济学分析

首先论述美国电影业的几个主要行业特征,进而分析美国电影业的产业结构。美国的电影业结构是六大主流制片公司与大量规模不等的独立制片公司并存。虽然当面临新企业进入的威胁时,六大主流制片公司采取了进入容纳政策,但由于美国电影业的经营特点,大多数独立制片公司最终不是倒闭就是被六大主流制片公司收购。