DO MARKETS PENALIZE AGENCY CONFLICTS BETWEEN CONTROLLING AND MINORITY SHAREHOLDERS? EVIDENCE FROM CHILE

Using a sample of Chilean listed firms with widespread presence of economic conglomerates that use pyramid structures to control affiliated companies, we find that firms where controlling shareholders have higher coincidence between cash and control rights are persistently more valued by the market. We carefully check that our results are not driven by omitted variable biases and control for reverse causation using a feature of Chilean Corporations Law that provides an exogenous instrument for ownership concentration.     

Big Five Audits and Accounting Fraud*

We examine the association between Big Five audits and the incidence of accounting frauds allegedly committed by U.S. public companies between 1981 and 2001. Many commentators argue that the prominent financial reporting failures that led to major corporate governance reforms cast serious doubt on whether the large public accounting firms continue to supply relatively high‐quality audits, especially in recent years. However, in unmatched and matched samples, we provide strong, robust evidence that fraudulent financial reporting becomes less likely with the presence of a Big Five auditor. Importantly, time‐series tests suggest that the Big Five are consistently associated with a lower incidence of fraudulent accounting, including in the last five years of our sample period when the number of frauds soared. Moreover, we find evidence implying that these relations are causal rather than an artifact of endogeneity in auditor choice.     

公司治理对小额贷款公司绩效影响的实证研究

文章依据公司治理理论,采用安徽省150家小额贷款公司2010-2012年的调查数据,应用面板数据模型随机效应估计方法,实证分析公司治理对小额贷款公司绩效的影响。实证结果显示,公司治理对小额贷款公司的财务可持续性影响较大,独立董事比例、女性董事、外部审计等与财务可持续性呈显著正相关,董事会规模也具有显著正向的影响。此外,公司治理对覆盖力的影响相对较小,只有公司规模和CEO/董事会主席的二元性两个因素对其有显著影响。     

Relationship between Managerial Compensation and Business Performance in Japan: New Evidence Using Micro Data*

This paper examines the relationship between the level of managerial compensation and the quality of corporate governance in Japan in the period following the bubble burst of 1991–1995. There are three main findings. First, Japanese firms with weaker governance have greater agency problems in that managerial opportunism extracts higher compensation and the firm performs relatively worse. Second, these agency problems were more severe during the recessionary period of 1994–1995. Finally, governance structures in industries with higher managerial compensation are relatively weaker than in other industries.     

Corporate Venture Capital and Its Contribution to Intermediate Goods Firms in South Korea*

Set by government, corporate, financial and individual sources, venture capitalists in Korea have adapted themselves to the new and uncertain venture capital market through stand‐alone and syndicated investments. The present study raises questions about whether various financial sources contributed differentially to their portfolio firms during the market boom of 2000. Results show that no single capital source showed better performance, and only corporate venture capitalists contributed to intermediate goods firms. The latter finding might reflect the unique ability of corporate venture capitalists to use vertical value‐chain linkages for their investments.     

旅游上市公司ESG表现对企业财务绩效的影响

以2016—2022年中国A股旅游上市公司季度数据为研究样本,实证分析旅游上市公司ESG(环境、社会和治理)表现对企业财务绩效的影响。研究发现：旅游上市公司ESG表现对企业财务绩效存在正向促进作用;ESG表现通过降低融资约束来实现对财务绩效的促进作用;相比于非旅游景区组,景区组改善ESG表现对企业财务绩效的提升效益更小;相比于非国有企业,国有企业的ESG表现对企业财务绩效的促进作用更显著。     

国有企业产权改革的法和经济学分析

本文从法和经济学的视角,运用产权理论和企业理论,对以法规和行政指令等形式表现的政府对国有企业产权改革的制度设计和安排,即国有企业产权改革的规则变迁、绩效进行分析,并在此基础上对社会主义市场经济下的政府、企业和市场的关系,国有企业改革的出路进行探讨。文章认为,有     

农业企业ESG责任履行、绿色技术创新与财务绩效

随着ESG(环境、社会和治理)理念的不断普及与推广,农业企业如何在此背景下通过绿色技术创新实现财务绩效的提升,已然成为公众关注的热点话题.因此选取国内2012-2021年78家农业企业为样本,构建固定效应模型,评估农业公司履行ESG责任对其财务绩效产生的影响,以及在二者关系中,绿色技术创新的调节作用.结果表明:农业企业ESG责任履行能提升财务绩效;在农业企业ESG履行责任与其财务绩效关系之间,绿色技术创新发挥了调节效应.