金融发展、融资约束与企业创新

金融发展如何促进企业创新是金融发展理论的基本问题,也是促成中国经济转型的现实问题。基于世界银行中国企业数据,考察金融发展和融资约束对企业创新的影响。研究发现,融资约束是企业创新的显著阻碍,而金融发展能显著促进企业创新。进一步地,区分创新路线异质性发现,融资约束对独立创新或产学研协同创新具有阻碍作用,对产业链协同创新不存在显著关系;金融发展有利于独立创新,对协同创新没有显著促进。区分企业异质性发现,融资约束的阻碍作用对中小企业和民营企业尤甚,对大型企业或国有和外资企业影响较小;但是,金融发展对大型企业的促进却强于中小企业,同时对民营企业和出口企业的正向影响更强。     

Dispersion in Analyst Forecasts and the Profitability of Earnings Momentum Strategies

This paper shows that the dispersion in analysts' consensus forecasts contains incremental information to predict future stock returns. Consistent with prior research, stock prices in the German market underreact to news about future earnings and drift in the direction suggested by analysts' forecasts revisions. Even higher abnormal returns can be achieved by applying such an earnings momentum strategy to stocks with a low dispersion in analyst forecasts. These results support one of the recent behavioural models in which investors underweight new evidence and conservatively update their beliefs in the right direction, but by too little in magnitude with respect to more objective information.     

持续经营审计意见、分析师跟踪与融资约束

以2011-2016年我国A股上市公司数据为研究样本,运用现金—现金流敏感性模型,研究持续经营审计意见及分析师跟踪对融资约束的影响。研究发现：持续经营审计意见的出具加剧了上市公司面临的融资约束;分析师跟踪人数越多,上市公司面临的融资约束越小;分析师跟踪能够缓解被出具带强调事项段持续经营无保留审计意见公司的融资约束,加剧被出具其他持续经营审计意见（保留意见、无法表示意见和否定意见）公司的融资约束。     

Corporate Innovation and Disclosure Strategy

This study investigates the impact of firm innovation on MD&A disclosure. Firms need to reduce information asymmetry to assist investors on the one hand and to prevent rivals from benefitting from disclosures on the other. Innovative firms can use an optimistic tone to convey good news but increase content similarity to reduce proprietary costs. Management chooses a certain content similarity and tone strategy for an innovation and as the number of innovations increases, the ratio of similar innovation disclosure and positive tone increases in the overall MD&A, resulting in greater content similarity and more news conveyed with a positive tone. We find that the firm's level of innovation is positively related to content similarity and tone optimism. We also find that this positive relation is more pronounced when product market competition is stronger and when regional intellectual property rights protection is weaker. Our further analyses on market responses provide evidence suggesting that management's disclosure strategy functions as intended.     

Institutional Investors, Analyst Following, and the January Anomaly

Average stock returns for small, low stock price firms are higher in January than for the rest of the year. Two explanations have received a great deal of attention: tax-loss selling and gamesmanship. This paper documents that seasonality in returns is not a phenomenon observed only for small firms' stock or those with low prices. Strong seasonality in excess returns is reported for a sample of widely followed firms. Sample firms have unusually low excess returns in January and returns adjust upward over the year. These results are consistent with the gamesmanship hypothesis, but not the tax-loss-selling hypothesis.     

Corporate Finance, Incentives, and Strategy

This study reviews papers from the Eastern Finance Association's Symposium on Corporate Finance, Incentives, and Strategy. I identify the common themes underlying these papers and place the studies in the broader context of contemporary academic finance research. Further, I discuss new directions for future research in corporate finance that are suggested in these studies.     

Institutional Investors, Analyst Following, and the January Anomaly

Average stock returns for small, low stock price firms are higher in January than for the rest of the year. Two explanations have received a great deal of attention: tax-loss selling and gamesmanship. This paper documents that seasonality in returns is not a phenomenon observed only for small firms' stock or those with low prices. Strong seasonality in excess returns is reported for a sample of widely followed firms. Sample firms have unusually low excess returns in January and returns adjust upward over the year. These results are consistent with the gamesmanship hypothesis, but not the tax-loss-selling hypothesis.     

The Effect of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act on Analyst Forecast Properties: The Impact of Firm Size and Growth Opportunities

Abstract:  We provide evidence that the effect of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (the Act) of 1995 on analyst forecast properties is conditional on firm size and growth opportunities. We show that analyst coverage, frequency of forecast revisions, forecast errors and dispersion after the Act decreased for large firms and for firms with low growth opportunities but increased for small firms and for firms with high growth opportunities. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that the Act results in additional high quality disclosures in large firms, which face higher litigation risk and tighter scrutiny from investors but not in smaller firms. Our findings of increases in analyst coverage and revision but deterioration in accuracy and precision of analyst forecasts for firms with high growth opportunities after the Act suggest that in spite of increased corporate disclosures, the information environment for analysts deteriorated in those firms.     

公司战略、大股东持股与财务欺诈

以2001-2015年我国A股上市公司为样本,考察企业公司战略定位对财务欺诈行为的影响,研究发现:公司战略对财务欺诈行为有显著影响,公司战略定位越激进,越可能导致财务欺诈行为的发生;经过稳健性测试后,结果依然成立.进一步研究发现:提高大股东持股比例,可以增强大股东对管理者的"监督效用",从而提升企业内部监督效率,进而抑制公司战略对财务欺诈行为的影响.     

金融创新、R&D与经济增长

在Uzawa(1965)、Lucas(1988)和Jones(1995)内生增长的模型的基础上,引入金融创新部门,研究了金融创新、R&D与经济增长的关系。金融创新直接影响经济增长率,还会通过对技术创新的影响,间接地影响到经济的增长。同时,三部门人力资本分配的变动受到生产函数中参数的影响。不同的金融创新产品对R&D和经济增长的影响也有所不同。     

混业经营制度下国有商业银行产品创新战略研究

对于国有商业银行来说,加入WTO后如何确定产品创新的战略目标和策略,发挥核心产品的优势为客户提供满足个性化需求的金融产品,从而赢得客户、扩大市场份额,是一项重大课题。本文从混业经营制度下的商业银行产品创新入手,分析了国内分业经营制度下,商业银行产品创新存在不能有效利用各要素市场,不能满足客户个性化需求,无法适应市场竞争的不足及其原因。在此基础上,作者提出了国有商业银行混业经营的目标路径和步骤;在混业经营制度下的产品创新战略定位选择;国有商业银行金融产品创新策略,包括机制创新、队伍创新、平台创新和产品创新。     

混业经营制度下国有商业银行产品创新战略研究

对于国有商业银行来说，加入WTO后如何确定产品创新的战略目标和策略，发挥核心产品的优势为客户提供满足个性化需求的金融产品，从而赢得客户、扩大市场份额，是一项重大课题。本文从混业经营制度下的商业银行产品创新入手，分析了国内分业经营制度下，商业银行产品创新存在不能有效利用各要素市场，不能满足客户个性化需求，无法适应市场竞争的不足及其原因。在此基础上，作者提出了国有商业银行混业经营的目标路径和步骤；在混业经营制度下的产品创新战略定位选择；国有商业银行金融产品创新策略．包括机制创新、队伍创新、平台创新和产品创新。     

管理决断权、财务柔性与企业技术创新

本文以2010-2018年沪深A股上市公司为研究对象,通过构建中介效应模型和有调节的中介效应模型,实证研究管理决断权对企业创新绩效的影响路径,以及CEO变更对管理决断权、财务柔性与企业创新绩效之间关系的调节效应。研究结果表明,提升管理层的管理决断权有助于促进创新绩效,而且财务柔性在管理决断权影响创新绩效过程中起不完全中介作用,存在"管理决断权水平高-→财务柔性水平高-→企业创新绩效高"的传导路径;CEO变更会正向调节财务柔性在管理决断权正向影响创新绩效中的中介效应,即存在有调节的中介效应。本文深化了管理决断权影响企业创新绩效的研究,对企业在CEO变更条件下建立和推动创新导向、增加研发投资以提升创新绩效具有重要的现实意义。     

Dividend Policy, Corporate Governance and the Managerial Entrenchment Hypothesis: An Empirical Analysis

This paper analyses the agency explanation for the cross-sectional variation of corporate dividend policy in the UK by looking at the managerial entrenchment hypothesis drawn from the agency literature. Consistent with predictions, a significant U-shaped relationship between dividend payout ratios and insider ownership is observed for a large (exceeding 600 firms) sample of UK companies and two distinct periods. These results strongly suggest the possibility of managerial entrenchment when insider ownership reaches a threshold of around 30%. Evidence is also presented that non-beneficial holdings by insiders can lead to entrenchment in conjunction with shares held beneficially.     

Insider Ownership,Subsidiary Cash Holdings,and Economic Consequences: Evidence from Listed Chinese Companies

ABSTRACT

Using a large sample of listed Chinese companies, we investigate how the equity ownership of business group insiders affects subsidiary cash holdings. We find that ownership by the largest shareholders and senior managers in the listed parent firm is negatively related to its subsidiaries’ cash holdings, whereas there is a positive relationship with minority equity in subsidiaries. We also find that the market places a more significant value discount on listed firms whose cash holdings are more located in the affiliated subsidiaries. Our evidence demonstrates how cash policy inside business groups is influenced by insider ownership, and it reveals to what extent cash allocated in subsidiaries may suffer from losses in efficiency.     

The Role of Investment,Financing and Dividend Decisions in Explaining Corporate Ownership Structure: Empirical Evidence from Spain

This paper analyses the determinants of ownership structure by focusing on the role played by investment, financing and dividend decisions. The use of the Generalised Method of Moments allows us to provide new evidence on this important corporate governance topic, since it controls for the endogeneity problem. Our most relevant findings show that: i) increases in debt lead insiders to limit the risk they bear by reducing their holdings; ii) monitoring by large outside owners substitutes for the disciplinary role of debt; and iii) both inside and outside owners are encouraged to increase their stakes in the firm in view of higher dividends. Our results hold after controlling for equity issues and share repurchases.     

Organizational Form and the Economic Impact of Corporate New Product Strategies

Abstract:  This paper examines the role of organizational form in explaining the economic impact of corporate new product strategies. I find that the wealth effects associated with the announcements of new product introductions are more favorable for introducing firms with focused activities than for those with diversified activities. The results hold even after controlling for other factors suggested in the literature that could affect the value of new product introductions. The findings in this study suggest that the efficient investment hypothesis dominates the internal capital markets hypothesis in terms of the net economic impact of new product introductions on the introducing firms.     

企业环境技术创新激励因素:国际进展与未来趋势

从国际层面厘清企业环境技术创新研究进展对研究与实践党中央在十九大报告中提出的"构建市场导向的绿色技术创新体系"具有重要意义.鉴此,本文从市场供需、环境管制政策、企业内外部资源、企业战略与管理体系和国际化五个方面梳理了企业开展环境技术创新的激励因素的研究进展,并结合中国面临可持续发展实践需求,提出了基于"市场"和"行政干预"双重机制作用于企业环境技术激励的理论与实践研究框架.     

以内生经济增长为导向的政府财税政策取向

新的内生经济增长理论提出知识积累、技术创新是导致一国经济实现长期持续增长的源泉。目前,我国经济增长存在着严重的技术约束,限制了我国实现内生增长的路径,为此,政府必须出台切实有效的财税政策,培育实现内生增长的知识积累和技术创新的条件。