Selling information to competitive firms

Internal agency conflicts distort firms' choices and reduce social welfare. To limit these distortions, principals dealing with privately informed agents often acquire information from specialized intermediaries, such as auditing and certification companies, that are able to ascertain, and credibly disclose, agents' private information. We study how the structures of both the information provision and the final good markets affect information accuracy. A monopolistic information provider may supply imprecise information to perfectly competitive firms, even if the precision of this information can be increased at no cost. This is due to a price effect of information: although more accurate information reduces agency costs and allows firms to increase production, it also results in a lower price in the final good market, which reduces principals' willingness to pay for information.     

Selling the brand inside

When you think of marketing, chances are your mind goes right to your customers--how can you persuade more people to buy whatever it is you sell? But there's another "market" that's equally important: your employees. Author Colin Mitchell argues that executives by and large ignore this critical internal audience when developing and executing branding campaigns. As a result, employees end up undermining the expectations set by the company's advertising--either because they don't understand what the ads have promised or because they don't believe in the brand and feel disengaged or, worse, hostile toward the company. Mitchell offers three principles for executing internal branding campaigns--techniques executives can use to make sure employees understand, embrace, and "live" the brand vision companies are selling to the public. First, he says, companies need to market to employees at times when the company is experiencing a fundamental challenge or change, times when employees are seeking direction and are relatively receptive to new initiatives. Second, companies must link their internal and external marketing campaigns; employees should hear the same messages that are being sent to the market-place. And third, internal branding campaigns should bring the brand alive for employees, creating an emotional connection to the company that transcends any one experience. Internal campaigns should introduce and explain the brand messages in new and attention-grabbing ways and then reinforce those messages by weaving them into the fabric of the company. It is a fact of business, writes Mitchell, that if employees do not care about or understand their company's brands, they will ultimately weaken their organizations. It's up to top executives, he says, to give them a reason to care.     

Interaction Between Short Selling and Potential Insider Selling in the IPO Aftermarket

We document the determinants of short interest in newly public firms during the lockup period and how short interest influences the valuation effects surrounding lockup expiration. We find that the short interest is larger for stocks that have more downward price potential at lockup expiration. We also find that the stocks that are subjected to larger short positions experience more pronounced negative valuation effects upon lockup expiration. Finally, we find that the stocks with a larger short interest position just after lockup expiration experience weaker returns during the following the six-month period.     

浅议我国商业银行分销渠道的拓展

商业银行经营效益的高低,不仅取决于银行产品的品种,而且还取决于营销渠道.要合理地选择如何把银行产品推向客户的手段和途径,使银行产品和服务能适时、适地、方便、快速、准确地销售给客户.商业银行通过建立最佳的分销渠道,使客户感到银行所提供的产品和服务既具有可接受性,也具有增益性、便利性,以此来维持现有客户和增加新客户.     

Selling to buy: Asset sales and acquisitions

This study explores the impact of joint corporate asset restructuring decisions, where firms sell an asset in order to fund a subsequent acquisition (selling-to-buy). We find that firms with asset sales are associated with increased acquisition probability. The effect is more pronounced for financially constrained firms. We also show that, in addition to the established improved firm efficiency from focus-increasing asset sales, financially constrained firms obtain the necessary funds to conduct focus-increasing acquisitions, improving further their efficiency. This translates into both higher long-run operating performance and stock abnormal returns at the asset sale announcement.     

Selling Failed Banks

The average FDIC loss from selling a failed bank is 28% of assets. We document that failed banks are predominantly sold to bidders within the same county, with similar assets business lines, when these bidders are well capitalized. Otherwise, they are acquired by less similar banks located further away. We interpret these facts within a model of auctions with budget constraints, in which poor capitalization of some potential acquirers drives a wedge between their willingness and ability to pay for failed banks. We document that this wedge drives misallocation, and partially explains the FDIC losses from failed bank sales.     

Luxury for the masses

Increasingly wide income disparities, higher levels of education, and greater awareness of other cultures' ideas of the good life have given rise to a new class of American consumer. And a new category of products and services, including automobiles, apparel, food, wine, and spirits, has sprung into being to cater to it. That category is called new luxury. America's middle-market consumers are trading up to higher levels of quality and taste than ever before. Members of the middle market (those earning $50,000 and above annually) collectively have around $1 trillion of disposable income. And they will pay premiums of 20% to 200% for well-designed, well-engineered, and well-crafted goods that can't be found in the mass middle market and that have the artisanal touches of traditional luxury items. Most important, even when they address basic necessities, such goods evoke and engage consumers' emotions while feeding their aspirations for a better life. Supply-side forces are essential to the rise of new luxury. Like the consumers of their goods, entrepreneurs are better educated and more sophisticated about their customers than ever before. In addition, global sourcing, falling trade barriers and transportation costs, and rising offshore manufacturing standards are making possible the economical production of alluring products of high quality. Unlike old-luxury goods, new-luxury products can generate high sales volumes despite their relatively high prices. As a result, new-luxury companies are achieving levels of profitability and growth beyond the reach of their conventional competitors. Whether the item in question is a $6 Panera sandwich or a $30,000 Mercedes, new luxury is a formula that middle-market companies, facing erosion of their market share by high-end and low-end producers, can ill afford to ignore.     

出售股票还是出售资产

以股票形式出售和以资产形式出售有区别吗 当一个人开始业务,创建自己的公司时,是建立S型公司还是建立C型公司,完全取决于公司的长期融资战略、各种法律条款及对交税的要求,而可能从来没有考虑过公司的形式会影响公司日后的出售.其实,当一个企业决定出售时,企业的形式会对销售价格有很大的影响.     

卖空制度对企业融资的影响研究——基于融券卖空制度的检验

基于中国2010年实施融资融券制度的背景,利用分批扩容的准自然实验环境,检验卖空制度对企业融资的影响。结果发现：卖空制度的引入对企业外源融资能够起到抑制作用,这来源于外部治理作用所带来的过度融资的减少、市场信息反馈效应所带来的企业融资——股票价格敏感度的提升,以及融资成本的提高。进一步分析发现,企业外源融资的减少是有效率的,能够提高企业资源配置效率,促进资本结构动态调整。因此,卖空制度有助于抑制企业的过度融资,提高企业资源配置效率,对资本市场的稳定运转和完善大有裨益。     

Short Selling and Efficient Sets

The effect of short selling on the composition and location of the efficient set has been analyzed in a variety of ways. However, the situation typically facing investors where the initial margin requirement is less than 100 percent and the riskfree interest rate that is paid on the short proceeds is less than the rate paid on initial margin has not previously been considered. The Elton-Gruber-Padberg algorithm (1976, 1978), subject to certain modifications, is shown here to be capable of identifying the efficient set under such conditions.     

开放式基金:持续性销售的尴尬

一味将开放式基金的销售工作重点放在首发阶段,最后将陷入开放式基金销售一一赎回的怪圈之中。     

Proxy Advisory Firms: The Economics of Selling Information to Voters

We analyze how proxy advisors, which sell voting recommendations to shareholders, affect corporate decision‐making. If the quality of the advisor's information is low, there is overreliance on its recommendations and insufficient private information production. In contrast, if the advisor's information is precise, it may be underused because the advisor rations its recommendations to maximize profits. Overall, the advisor's presence leads to more informative voting only if its information is sufficiently precise. We evaluate several proposals on regulating proxy advisors and show that some suggested policies, such as reducing proxy advisors' market power or decreasing litigation pressure, can have negative effects.     

Short‐Selling Risk

Short sellers face unique risks, such as the risk that stock loans become expensive and the risk that stock loans are recalled. We show that short‐selling risk affects prices among the cross‐section of stocks. Stocks with more short‐selling risk have lower returns, less price efficiency, and less short selling.     

疫情下的直销银行静思

2020年开年,一场突如其来的新冠疫情给整个社会来个急刹车,给人们带来了惊慌失措,也带来了沉静思考的时间,思考未来的方向,大到国家、社会,小到人生、商业,当然直销银行也不例外。自从中国第一家直销银行——民生直销银行2014年2月28日上线以来,中国银行业成立的直销银行已经有100多家。     

证券市场中卖空交易机制基本功能研究

本文通过利用境外实证研究结果和境外市场的数据进行实证这两种方式对国外证券市场中卖空交易机制的基本功能进行深入的研究.研究结果表明,证券市场中的卖空交易机制能发挥稳定市场、价格发现和提供流动性的功能,但卖空机制的宏观调控功能的实际效果并不理想.     

卖空限制与收益可预测性——A股融资融券制度的证据

基于A股市场融资和融券余额的巨大差距,本文拓展了Hong et al.(2016)的理论模型,在融券端和融资端分别找到了影响股票收益率的变量:融券比率(融券余额/流通市值)和融资回补天数(融资比率/日均换手率)。进一步,本文利用组合价差法和Fama-MacBeth横截面回归法,实证检验了A股市场中融券比率与融资回补天数解释和预测股票收益率的能力。实证结果表明,在存在融券限制条件下,融券比率相比融券回补天数(融券比率/日均换手率)能更好地代表套利者对股票价格高估程度的看法,根据融券比率构建的等权重多空组合能带来月均1.58%的显著收益;而由于融资约束相对较少,融资回补天数相比融资比率(融资余额/流通市值)能更好地代表套利者对股票价格低估程度的看法,根据融资回补天数构建的等权重多空组合能带来月均1.28%的显著收益。实证结果与本文存在融券数量限制下的理论模型相符,且该收益率不能被多因子模型和常规股票特征所解释。     

卖空限制与收益可预测性——A股融资融券制度的证据

基于A股市场融资和融券余额的巨大差距,本文拓展了Hong et al.(2016)的理论模型,在融券端和融资端分别找到了影响股票收益率的变量:融券比率(融券余额/流通市值)和融资回补天数(融资比率/日均换手率)。进一步,本文利用组合价差法和Fama-MacBeth横截面回归法,实证检验了A股市场中融券比率与融资回补天数解释和预测股票收益率的能力。实证结果表明,在存在融券限制条件下,融券比率相比融券回补天数(融券比率/日均换手率)能更好地代表套利者对股票价格高估程度的看法,根据融券比率构建的等权重多空组合能带来月均1.58%的显著收益;而由于融资约束相对较少,融资回补天数相比融资比率(融资余额/流通市值)能更好地代表套利者对股票价格低估程度的看法,根据融资回补天数构建的等权重多空组合能带来月均1.28%的显著收益。实证结果与本文存在融券数量限制下的理论模型相符,且该收益率不能被多因子模型和常规股票特征所解释。     

Short Selling and Intraday Price Pressures

We study episodes of significant intraday downward price pressures in individual stocks and find that price declines during such episodes are driven mainly by liquidity demanding nonshort volume. Although short sellers during these price pressure episodes are also active and somewhat exacerbate the magnitude of price declines, their influence on prices is secondary to that of nonshort sellers. As such, our findings are inconsistent with the recently reignited allegations of systematic trading abuses caused solely by short sellers and might shed light on the debate regarding the need to reinstitute short selling restrictions.     

卖点不过一点点

一个朋友要到南方某城市出差,有人推荐了一家那座城市的酒店。因为那家酒店备有各式各样的枕头,其中就有许多人习惯了的养麦皮枕心的枕头。那位要出差的朋友很高兴,说自己每次因为睡不惯松松软软的海绵枕头而使整个出差过程打不起精神,看来这次可以睡个好觉了。据了解,这家酒店就因为枕头问题解决得好,