Provisions on the Administration of Foreign Exchange in Domestic Securities Investments of Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors

In accordance with the Regulations on the Foreign Exchange Administration of the People＇s Republic of China and the Measures for the Administration of Domestic Securities Investment by Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange has formulated the Provisions on the Administration of Foreign Exchange in Domestic Securities Investments of Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors, which came into effect on the date of its promulgation.     

Circular of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange on Issoues Concerning Administration of Overseas Organizations' Foreign Exchange Accounts in China

For the purpose of regulating the opening and use of foreign exchange accounts in China by overseas organizations.facilitating investment in trade and preventing financial risks,the State Administration of Foreign Exchange issued Circular of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange on Issues Conceming Administration of Overseas Organizations'Foreign Exchange Accounts in China,which entered into force on Aug.1,2009.     

Circular of the Comprehensive Department of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange on Issues Concerning Indirect Declaration of International Receipt and Payment of Domestic Non-Residental Collection and Payment

For the purpose of fully collecting the information of collection and payment of nonresidents with the overseas through domestic banks and the information of collection and payment of domestic non-residents with domestic residents through domestic banks.     

RMB exchange rate and trade balance

Gang Yi—Deputy Governor and Administrator, State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), People's Bank of China—returned to Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)—where he was awarded an honorary degree. Following are remarks and a lecture on the Chinese economy he presented on April 18, 2012.     

Regulations on Foreign Exchange Svstem of the People's Republic of China

Issued in the Decree No.193 of the State Council on January 29,1996,amended in accordance with the Decision of the State Council to Revise the Regulations on Foreign Exchange System of the People's Republic of China on January 14,1997,and revised and passed in the 20th executive meeting of the State Council on August 1,2008.     

Business Ethics in Canada: Distinctiveness and Directions

This article examines the pressures and players that have shaped business ethics in Canadian corporations, and reports on the status of Canadian corporate social performance in 1995. Business in Canada has not been subject, up to 1996, to a powerful national institutional framework such as the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Consequently, business ethics in Canada have developed primarily in response to broader socio-political and socio-economic factors than in the US, and will probably continue to do so. Interestingly, the issues, policies and practices developed in Canada may provide insights for US corporations as they respond to broadened pressures. Business ethics in Canada, on the other hand, will benefit increasingly from the US experience as pressures grow for national regulation and statutes governing corruption.     

Business Q & As as for Foreign Business Practice in China

What materials are needed for foreign-funded enterprises to increase capital? Where to handle? For foreign-funded enterprise adjusting registered capital,please submit the examination and approval materials to the former approval organ for direct examination and approval in according to the provisions including the Circular of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, and the State Administration of Industry and Commerce on Relevant Provisions and Procedures for Foreign Investment Enterprises to Adjust Total Investment and Registered Capital (Wai Jing Mao Fa [1995] No. 366) and the Notice on printing and distributing the Provisions on the Alteration of Investors' equity in Foreign Investment Enterprises.     

Foreign Trade of China:Pains join happiness in 2005,Hard to Go Ahead in 2006

Foreign trade has become the most im portant issue in the country's economic situation.Domestic experts take the point of view that in 2006, the external demand will be still in a period of expansion, the surplus of foreign trade and export will witness a great increase, meaning that China will be possible to encounter more trade disputes in 2006 than in 2005.     

Which foreign states support the global use of the Chinese renminbi? The international political economy of currency internationalisation

The internationalisation of the Chinese renminbi has taken a path distinct from most cases involving previous international currencies, in that policy measures adopted by governments have played crucial roles in it. This paper conducts a cross‐country analysis of the factors that have led foreign governments to introduce three primary policy infrastructures to support renminbi use—renminbi swap lines, Renminbi Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor quotas and renminbi clearing banks. Our analysis shows that a state holding renminbi assets among its reserves or having more developed financial markets is likely to establish a higher level of policy infrastructure supporting renminbi use. We also find that a country's economic and political relations with China may have meaningful impacts on the level of its establishment of those renminbi‐related policy infrastructures. These findings significantly expand our understanding of renminbi internationalisation, by identifying which non‐Chinese factors have affected its progress to date. They also contribute meaningfully to the literature on currency internationalisation and international currencies in general, by calling attention to the roles of foreign states in the process of a currency's internationalisation.     

Material Sustainability Information and Stock Price Informativeness

Journal of Business Ethics - As part of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s revision of Regulation S–K, which lays out reporting requirements for publicly-listed companies, many...     

Looking at the brain: Neural effects of “made in” labeling on product value and choice

International business research posits that, under certain circumstances, consumers prefer goods manufactured in their own country regardless of their country of origin image. Yet the psychological origin of such Domestic bias remains unknown. This study presents a neuroimaging experiment developed in Spain. The task combined low and high involvement goods marked with Domestic “Made in Spain” and Foreign “Made in USA” (similar culture) and “Made in China” (different culture) labels. The findings reveal that Domestic goods always convey neural rewarding sensations. Neural aversive biases toward Foreign goods occur only when the products are culturally different and high involvement. These findings help improve business retailing strategies.     

Market openness and market quality in gold markets

This paper studies the impact of market openness on market quality in gold markets, by investigating the openness event that occurred when the Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE) launched an international board (SGEI) for foreign investors in China. Investors prefer to trade on the SGE than the SGEI, probably due to the SGE’s higher liquidity. In addition, using the New York Mercantile Exchange (COMEX) gold futures as the benchmark, we show the SGE experiences a significant increase in liquidity without a concomitant increase in volatility. Moreover, the SGE’s contribution to international gold price discovery increases after the openness event.     

Trade effects of the Europe agreements: A theory-based gravity approach

We analyze normalized productivity differences for 15 developing Latin American countries and four firm types: National Domestic, National Exporter, Foreign Domestic, and Foreign Exporter. There are no productivity thresholds for viability, export activity, or multinational activity, but we do find a clear size productivity premium and development productivity premium in the manufacturing sectors. We also find a clear foreign-ownership productivity premium, both for domestic firms and for exporting firms and both for manufacturing sectors and services sectors. In contrast, we only find an export productivity premium for national firms in the manufacturing sectors.     

New audit partner identification rules may offer opportunities and benefits

From the WorldCom and Enron accounting debacles that triggered the demise of Arthur Andersen to Ernst & Young’s 2013 and 2015 settlements of claims that its audits facilitated massive accounting fraud by financial services firm Lehman Brothers, large-scale financial scandals have led to increasing scrutiny of public auditors. Investors are justifiably eager to ascertain the quality of audits of public companies when making investment decisions. In the U.K., the reputation of the audit partner is recognized as a signal of audit quality, and as such, the names of the lead partners have been disclosed to the public since 2009. The U.S. standard of providing the auditing firm name without identifying the lead partner recently changed to match the U.K. and EU standard after much debate. As of May 2016, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has adopted—and the Securities and Exchange Commission has approved—new regulations that will require the public disclosure of the individual audit partner responsible for each public company audit, as well as the identification of any additional accounting firms that contribute to the audit. This article examines the new rules in light of disclosure requirements imposed on other professionals, as well as international auditor disclosure requirements. The accounting profession has generally opposed the new disclosures, but this article suggests opportunities and benefits for the profession as a result of the changes, including the opportunity for audit partners to develop individual reputations for quality and specialization. In addition, this article makes recommendations for business managers, owners, and investors for making the best use of the information the new disclosures will provide.     

从新加坡股票上市规则看中国相关规定的完善

新加坡证券市场是亚洲重要的国际化证券市场之一，其证交所的角色定位、证券市场板块设置以及关于上市公司股本、经营历史、公众持股、股权分布比例、锁股期等方面的规则颇具特色。相比之下，虽然中国新近修订的《证券法》、《公司法》对以往的股票上市规则进行了一定幅度的改动，但是在上述各方面仍有必要吸收和借鉴新加坡的经验和做法。     

会计信息披露过剩:评价与启示

美国财务会计准则委员会的公认会计原则和美国证券交易委员会的系列规则共同构成了美国资本市场的信息披露制度体系。这一体系中存在的披露过剩问题在近20年来不断遭到人们的批评。现阶段,我国有很多准则没有制定出来,完全可以采纳SEC提出的效率化、简单化和现代化的观点,来制定能够反映我国经济实质的准则和信息披露规范。     

上市公司非经常性损益问题研究

根据沪市上市公司2010年年报数据,本文采用非经常性损益贡献率指标,利用描述性统计方法,分析了不同类型T族公司利用非经常性损益调节净利润的程度和手段,认为监管制度对T族公司利用非经常性损益调节净利润具有较强的导向作用,受"扣除非经常性损益后的净利润为正值"的限制,"摘帽"公司更注重通过提升主营业务收益来实现扭亏,而未受非经常性损益限制的"摘星"和恢复上市公司则更多地通过做多非经常性收益项目、增加净利润来扭亏,政府财政补贴、资产出售和债务重组仍然是它们做多非经常性收益、实现扭亏的重要手段。     

The contribution of a satellite market to price discovery: Evidence from the Singapore exchange

The Singapore Exchange (SGX), a small satellite market, successfully competes with a large home market, the Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE), in trading the Nikkei 225 futures index. In this paper, we investigate the contribution of the SGX to price discovery and shed light on the reasons for its continued success. Evidence is provided from information revelation and price discovery of three competing but informationally linked markets of the Nikkei 225 index—domestic spot (Tokyo Stock Exchange), domestic futures (OSE), and foreign futures (SGX), which represents the satellite market. Overall, the futures market contributes 77% to price discovery, with the satellite market contributing 42% of the futures and 33% of the total price discovery. These figures, surprisingly, far exceed the satellite market's share of trading volume. Support is provided for the extended trading hours on the SGX for three of the four non‐overlapping trading sub‐periods. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Jrl Fut Mark 24:981–1004, 2004     

Impact of algorithmic trading on speed of adjustment to new information: Evidence from interest rate derivatives

In February 2012, the Australian Securities Exchange introduced co-location services for futures traders, thus providing a natural experiment to test the impact of algorithmic trading (AT) on the speed of adjustment and price discovery during scheduled macroeconomic releases. Our results demonstrate that, in the presence of AT, the speed of adjustment to new information has improved for both exchange-traded futures and over-the-counter-traded swaps. In addition, we find that the price discovery contribution of the futures market improves in the post-AT period, with this improvement significant for macroeconomic announcement days.     

Foreign Investors' Reaction to Lower Profitability – The Role of Information Asymmetry*

Owners of firms in trouble are more exposed to moral hazard problems than owners of successful firms. Foreign owners who face higher costs to monitor the firm should be more vulnerable to these problems than domestic ones. Consequently, a downward revision in a firm's expected future earnings should push foreign investors to sell their shares to a larger extent than domestic investors. We test this hypothesis on profit warnings issued at the Helsinki Stock Exchange. Our results reveal that in the wake of profit warnings foreign investors will predominantly sell, while domestic investors pick up the net sales by foreigners. Differences in the scale of the foreign investor sell‐out reaction are explained by a number of variables. The most significant one is our proxy for the magnitude of surprise in the warning. The reaction also increases with the degree of perceived information asymmetry for the firm that issued the warning, while foreign members on the firm's board have a moderating impact. By contrast, a number of general corporate governance‐related variables have no statistically significant impact on the reaction.