国外培训经验借鉴及启示

国外知名商业银行无一例外地都把员工培训作为一项事关银行生命力强盛与否的重要工作，通过各种形式的培训，增强银行员工各方面的专业素养，提高银行的核心竞争力。[编者按]     

借鉴国际经验加强操作风险管理

在中国,一方面,操作风险所引起的损失接连不断,令人震惊,另一方面,对于操作风险仍未引起足够重视,对其认识也不够深入.在构建"和谐社会"的新形势下,借鉴国际经验,加强操作风险管理已成为我国银行界的当务之急.     

日本非上市公众公司监管经验与借鉴

日本金融商品交易法实施后,对非上市公众公司的监管规定更加清晰明确。日本通过对股份公司向50名以上的一般投资者发行或转让股票且金额超过1亿日元的行为,以及最近5年内达到资本金5亿日元及1000名以上股东人数的公司纳入监管等规定,来实施对1000家非上市公众公司的监管。日本的相关做法对我国探索建立非上市公众公司适度监管制度具有借鉴意义。     

Privatizing the statutory auditing services in Greece

This paper examines the historical process of privatizing the Greek auditing profession in the context of contemporaneous political and economic developments that date from the inception of the profession in 1955. The paper focuses on the successive attempts to implement the EEC's Eighth Company Law Directive that led to the abolition of the Body of Sworn-in Accountants - the state-sponsored institute and at the same time a practising firm. Furthermore, the changing expectations about the auditor's role as reflected in the privatization discussions over time are explored.     

德国商业银行内部控制对我国银行业的启示

本文从对德国商业银行内部控制成就进行考察人手,借鉴西方商业银行长期经营实践所积累的丰富的内控管理经验,就我国商业银行内部控制的完善提出了自己的观点.     

从国际评级业现状看我国信用评级业发展

信用评级行业是一个有着百年历史的行业,2008年金融危机后三大评级机构的表现引发了世界各国对评级行业的重新审视。随着改革开放的不断深化,中国经济与世界经济的结合日益紧密,中国的评级行业也随之与全球市场接轨。本文分析了美国、欧洲、日本、韩国以及中国评级行业发展的最新现状,试图找出评级行业发展中存在的问题,尤其是中国评级行业发展中存在的问题,为建立适合我国特色的信用评级体系提供建议。     

美法农业保险模式比较及其经验借鉴

本文从美国、法国两国农业保险的对比研究出发,论证了美国、法国农业保险的不同模式及其特点,并对其经验进行了总结,以期对我国的农业保险体系建设提供借鉴.     

Learning Portfolio Management by Experience: University Student Investment Funds

In this age of greater cooperation between academia and industry, it is surprising to find a general lack of awareness by both parties as to the progress being made to closely integrate financial theory with practice. This paper is intended to bring colleagues in universities and business up to date in an area where considerable success has been achieved, namely, investments and portfolio management. Through a survey of universities across the country, a comprehensive list of programs that allow students to manage portfolios of real dollars has been compiled. It is hoped that sharing the results of this survey will encourage further cooperation in establishing new innovative programs in all areas of business.     

Hospital Costing: Experience from the VHA

The government administered Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the largest integrated health care system in the USA. As health care dollars are becoming tighter nationwide, VHA faces the dual challenge of achieving cost reductions and improving quality, while operating in an increasingly competitive marketplace. This places new demands on cost accountability within the agency. This paper identifies the cost accounting procedures currently used by VHA as it responds to internal budgetary curtailment and to external competitive pressures. Understanding the different costing approaches taken by the organization along with their associated problems offers lessons of interest to financial managers within and outside VHA.     

Gains from Corporate Multinationalism: Evidence from the China Experience

This paper examines the valuation impact of U.S. multinational corporations' expansion into the Peoples Republic of China (PRC during 1979 to 1987. The market response to the announcement of a firm's initial entry into the PRC is found to be positive and statistically significant, suggesting that expansion into China was a value-enhancing activity. Equity joint venture modes of entry are found to result in greater shareholder gains than nonequity expansion modes. The influence of degree of multinationality, market share, growth, and technology-related variables on the size of shareholder gains is also analyzed.     

Managing the information revolution : Lessons for business from the French Revolution

This article looks back to the French Revolution and forward to the next stages of the information revolution. It observes that the ‘managers’ of the French Revolution failed, first, to see what to do about the revolution's core issues; second, to properly manage the changes that were started; third, to manage expectations; and fourth, to provide committed and sustained leadership. Avoiding these four failures is also critical to managing the information revolution. But the new capabilities of information and communications technology are making it easier to do this. In their future strategy, top management need no longer be inhibited by ignorance of IT capabilities. Managing change can now be based on clearly differentiated roles of business and technical management. And, as understanding grows of the inherent uncertainties of system design, managing user expectations can become more effective.     

Acquisitions and CEO power: Evidence from French networks

During mergers and acquisitions, the CEOs of the acquiring firms are likely to cancel the deal if the market does not react favorably to its announcement. Using a sample of French acquisition announcements during the period from 2000 to 2005, this paper studies the conditions in which CEOs are more willing to listen to investors. Furthermore, according to the strong networks developed through French elite schools' alumni and board ties, the well-connected CEOs are more likely to complete any deal in spite of a negative market reaction to acquisition announcements.     

Corporate Investments: Learning from Restatements

This study analyzes the information conveyed by the restatements of financial reports. We argue that restatements contain news about the investment projects of the restating firms' competitors. This news causes competitors to revise their beliefs about the projects' value, and to modify their subsequent investment decisions. Accordingly, we hypothesize that changes in competitors' investments after restatement announcements are related to news in the restatements. Consistent with our prediction, we find that changes in competitors' investments following restatement announcements are significantly related to various proxies for news in the restatements, such as competitors' and restating firms' abnormal returns at the restatement announcements. We conclude that restatements convey information about the investment projects of restating firms' competitors.     

Learning from repetitive acquisitions: Evidence from the time between deals

Knowledge gleaned from previous acquisitions may confer valuation expertise and other benefits. But numerous acquisitions also entail costs, due to problems of incorporating diverse units into an ever larger firm. Such benefits and costs are not directly observable from outside the firm. This article proposes a simple model to infer their relative importance, using the time between successive deals. The data requirements are minimal and allow the use of all mergers and acquisitions during 1992–2009 (more than 300,000 deals). The results provide evidence of learning gains through repetitive acquisitions, especially under CEO continuity and when successive deals are more similar.     

Banking Deregulation and Industry Structure: Evidence from the French Banking Reforms of 1985

We investigate how the deregulation of the French banking industry in the 1980s affected the real behavior of firms and the structure and dynamics of product markets. Following deregulation, banks are less willing to bail out poorly performing firms and firms in the more bank‐dependent sectors are more likely to undertake restructuring activities. At the industry level, we observe an increase in asset and job reallocation, an improvement in allocative efficiency across firms, and a decline in concentration. Overall, these findings support the view that a more efficient banking sector helps foster a Schumpeterian process of “creative destruction.”     

Behind managerial reforms: the French experience

Inspired by new public management (NPM), managerial reforms in many countries from the 1990s onwards focused on three criteria: effectiveness, efficiency and enhancing service quality. These criteria were meant to be given equal weight in measuring performance, but this paper shows that some criteria dominated. The reform experiences of four countries are compared, with a focus on French reforms.     

Learning from Trading

The incorporation of diverse information into asset prices isempirically examined in an actual securities market with multiplerounds of trade. Using prices of Israeli index and nominal bondsof equal maturity, we calculate implied expectations of inflationthat has already occurred but for which the official statistichas not yet been announced. Learning is defined as the convergenceof these expectations to the actual level of inflation in theperiod after the end of the month but before the announcementof the official statistic. We find that the variance of theinflation expectation errors decreases with trading days inthis period. The decline in the variance suggests that investorslearn, by repeatedly observing prices, about the distributionof other investors' information. We also find a positive relationbetween the dispersion of relative price changes and the sizeof the inflation-expectation errors on the first round of trade.The correlation diminishes as investors learn about the distributionof inflation information in the economy.