Decisions Made by the Controlling Shareholder Under Financial Crisis

We employ a sample of 12,200 observations from 2,321 companies listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges in China between 2005 and 2013 to test five hypotheses. The empirical results show that the cost of tunneling and ownership structure play important roles in restraining incentives to expropriate firms. Financial crisis will reinforce the incentive to propping rather than tunneling with higher ownership concentration. Moreover, controlling shareholders of state-owned enterprises show a stronger motivation to prop up during crisis periods than do those of non-state-owned enterprises. The results indicate that both an entrenchment effect and a convergence-of-interest effect actually exist and vary according to ownership structure and macroeconomic circumstances.     

Disequilibrium Structures and Financing Decisions in the Firm

The business firm confronts interdependent decision problems in production, investment, and finance. Emphasis is here placed on the firm's decision criteria in disequilibrium situations or at infra-optimum structural planning and decision points. The operative cost of capital is shown to be 'the full marginal cost of relaxing the money capital availability constraint'. The popular 'weighted average cost of capital' is shown to be an 'equilibrium datum' which has operative significance only at optimum structural positions. It does not offer adequate guidance to financing and investment decisions in disequilibrium situations.     

金融危机下我国房地产泡沫的成因分析及防范对策

近年来,我国房地产业发展迅速,房地产市场持续升温,一些城市房价快速上涨,产生了大量的房地产泡沫,对经济的健康、可持续发展产生了严重的影响。针对金融危机下房地产业出现的新情况,本文阐述了金融业与房地产泡沫的关系,深入分析了当前金融危机背景下房地产泡沫防范的必要性,并提出了解决问题的对策。     

环境不确定条件下企业动态财务能力的分析框架

分析了环境不确定条件下动态能力、财务柔性、权变财务研究的现状与不足,构建了动态财务能力分析框架.认为动态财务能力包括两个层次:第一层次包括财务状态评判能力、财务机会创造与识别能力;第二层次包括公司治理结构、组织结构和财权配置结构调整能力,财务战略及政策调整、财务资源整合能力.企业只有在正确评判财务状态、识别财务机会的基...     

从可持续发展视角论金融发展的不确定性

金融发展内涵相当丰富且具有多样性的特点，从金融可持续发展理论的视角出发，并结合西方金融发展理论进行分析，表明金融发展对经济增长的作用一定程度上是不确定的。     

Taxes, Financing Decisions, and Firm Value

We use cross-sectional regressions to study how a firm's value is related to dividends and debt. With a good control for profitability, the regressions can measure how the taxation of dividends and debt affects firm value. Simple tax hypotheses say that value is negatively related to dividends and positively related to debt. We find the opposite. We infer that dividends and debt convey information about profitability (expected net cash flows) missed by a wide range of control variables. This information about profitability obscures any tax effects of financing decisions.     

房地产投资和金融支持实体经济的交互影响研究--基于环沪都市圈的分析

基于房地产市场与金融发展的紧密关系,本文将房地产投资、金融发展与实体经济发展纳入同一框架进行综合研究。首先梳理房地产、金融效率的环沪都市圈1发展现状,深入探讨房地产、金融与宏观经济增长的作用机制。然后以2003~2016年环沪都市圈为样本,采用交互效应模型分析房地产投资通过金融体系间接影响经济发展的综合效应。分析得到的主要结论包括:环沪都市圈房地产投资对实体经济发展整体呈现一定的负向作用,主要是抑制了金融支持实体经济的效率,两者负相关系数为0.75;经实证研究进一步发现,在经济发展水平较弱、金融化程度越高的城市群,房地产投资对金融支持实体经济效率的抑制作用更加显著,是全部样本的2.4倍,这也恰好解释了浙北经济长期落后于苏南的原因。     

实际有效汇率对企业创新的影响:基于融资约束的视角

汇率是开放经济中企业资源再配置的重要驱动力,汇率变动引发的不确定性会对企业研发投资决策产生重要影响。本文采用中国工业企业数据库和海关数据库匹配的数据集,在计算行业实际有效汇率基础上,实证研究人民币汇率、融资约束对制造业企业研发投资的影响。研究发现:人民币升值刺激企业加大研发投入;出口企业应对汇率冲击优于非出口企业,更倾向于提高研发创新投资应对本币升值;人民币升值对融资约束较低的企业研发投资激励作用更大。相比于非高技术行业,汇率上升对高技术行业企业的创新投入促进作用更大。     

Credit Allocation and Firm Productivity Under Financial Imperfection: Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms

The role of the financial system, especially the credit market, in productivity enhancement has interested many researchers. However, how credit allocation affects firms’ productivity in emerging economies remains unanswered. Using data from the Annual Survey of Industrial Firms (ASIF) during 1999–2007, this article examines whether credit allocation impacts Chinese firms’ productivity under financial imperfection. Our results show that the size of credit market has no influence on Chinese firms’ total factor productivity (TFP), while allocating more credit to non-SOEs significantly promotes firm TFP. Our further analysis shows that firms which are less subsidized, smaller, more external financially dependent, and more labor intensive are affected more by credit allocation. As China is the largest emerging economy, our analysis also sheds light on the development of firms in emerging economies.     

房地产项目的金融择优性支持与风险控制

房地产行业发展与金融支持密不可分。当前,我国房地产行业面临行业调整和经济危机双重困难,行业发展暂时陷入困境。房地产行业作为支柱产业,具有行业关联度极高的特点和巨大的市场需求潜力,决定了其必将会迎来新一轮的健康发展。银行需要在优选企业的基础上,通过"三看"进一步加大优选项目力度,在支持房地产业健康发展、寻求新业务空间的同时更好地控制风险。     

财务独立董事的公司绩效研究

本文系统回顾了国外关于财务专家与公司绩效之间关系的研究成果,并以我国上市公司2004～2006年的经验数据为样本,在对财务独立董事分类评分的基础上,分析了不同类型的财务独立董事与公司绩效之间的关系。结果表明：会计专家型财务独立董事和金融型财务独立董事能够显著地促进公司绩效,而会计型财务独立董事和监管型财务独立董事与公司绩效并无相关性。     

泛资源观念下的财务管理机制研究

通过对现有财务管理机制的环境变化进行分析,提出了在泛资源观念下的财务管理机制,包括财务动力机制、财务运行机制、财务评价机制和财务与环境互动机制,并对泛资源观念下的资本从财务资本向财务资本、人力资本和环境资本并重的转化进行了阐述.     

Product Market Competition and Financial Decisions During a Financial Crisis

We find that in the presence of the “flight to quality” during the 2007‐2008 financial crisis, firms that depended less on external financing (or internal finance dependent (IFD) firms) prior to the crisis were able to secure additional financing and increased investments, while external finance dependent (EFD) firms significantly contracted their external financing and investments. IFD firms’ increased investments during the crisis were associated with higher market share growth, while EFD competitors lost their market share. The results indicate that firms’ financial decisions during the financial crisis are interrelated with their product market dimensions.     

金融危机背景下商业银行房地产信贷风险防范

在美国次贷危机引发的金融危机不断蔓延和中国房地产市场处于深度调整的复杂形势下,国内商业银行所面临的房地产信贷风险日益凸显,应采取如下的房地产信贷风险管理措施:实行房地产信贷总量控制和严格客户、项目分类管理;坚持房地产开发贷款封闭管理,严防信贷资金挪用;完善房地产贷款风险监控机制和加强抵押品价值管理。     

Tax Rate Uncertainty, Investment Decisions, and Tax Neutrality

This article deals with the effects of tax rate uncertainty (TRU) on individual investment behavior. We show that under risk neutrality as well as under risk aversion, increased TRU has an ambiguous impact on investment, depending on the investment project's structure of cash flows and depreciation deductions. Although the investment effects are small the popular view that tax policy uncertainty depresses real investment is rejected. Further, tax neutrality in the light of tax policy uncertainty is defined more precisely. Neutrality results for the Johansson-Samuelson tax and the cash flow tax that are known from certainty are confirmed under TRU.     

房产困局中的金融风险

当前,中央政府和社会舆论对房地产市场是否存在泡沫、以及房地产开发投资持续增长是否会激化泡沫异常关注,因为这涉及到国家经济安全和金融安全问题.本文将从分析中国目前房地产市场特征出发,重点探讨可能对房地产金融带来的影响及可能的风险防范措施.     

Strategic Decision Making of the Firm Under Asymmetric Information

This paper develops a simple signaling model whereby high valuation firm uses levels of investment, debt and dividends to convey information to the market regarding its valuation. Conditions are determined under which investment, debt and dividends are employed in a separating Nash equilibrium. Unlike many other signaling models where the source of asymmetric information concerns only the mean of the firms' cash flow, our model allows for two sources of asymmetric information: the mean and the variance of the cash flow. This paper finds that the choice of signals depends on the relative importance of these two sources of informational asymmetry. For example, we show that high valued firms signal their values by decreasing their debt if the source of asymmetric information is mainly driven by the variance of the cash flows. This latter result differs from the debt signaling models found in the literature. The findings of this paper are consistent with extensive empirical evidence.     

Institutional Investors and Firm Efficiency of Real Estate Investment Trusts

This study investigates the effect of institutional ownership on improving firm efficiency of equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), using a stochastic frontier approach. Firm inefficiency is estimated by comparing a benchmark Tobin??s Q of a hypothetical value-maximizing firm to the firm??s actual Q. We find that the average inefficiency of equity REITs is around 45.5%, and that institutional ownership can improve the firm??s corporate governance, and hence reduce firm inefficiency. Moreover, we highlight the importance of heterogeneity in institutional investors??certain types of institutional investors such as long-term, active, and top-five institutional investors, and investment advisors are more effective institutional investors in reducing firm inefficiency; whereas hedge funds and pension funds seem to aggravate the problem. In sub-sample analysis, we find that these effective institutional investors can reduce inefficiency more effectively for distressed REITs, and for REITs with high information asymmetry, and with longer term lease contracts. Lastly, we find that the negative impact of institutional ownership (except for long-term institutional investors) on firm inefficiency reduces over time, possibly due to strengthened corporate governance and regulatory environment in the REIT industry.     

The Relationship between Firm Investment and Financial Status

Firm investment decisions are shown to be directly related to financial factors. Investment decisions of firms with high creditworthiness (according to traditional financial ratios) are extremely sensitive to the availability of internal funds; less creditworthy firms are much less sensitive to internal fund availability. This large sample evidence is based on an objective sorting mechanism and supports the results of Kaplan and Zingales (1997), who also find that investment outlays of the least constrained firms are the most sensitive to internal cash flow.