今麦郎掌门的“智商”路

今麦郎的名字打响了,可是今麦郎的少帅范现国却甘于躲在幕后。他的低调、他的朴素和儒雅却让我们对他另眼相看。     

Top Executive Remuneration: A View from Europe*

abstract We argue that the dominance of principal‐agent theory as an approach to investigating executive pay has led to an overly narrow focus which may be unhelpful when considering cross‐country differences and probably also hinders within‐country analysis. The paper discusses the interlinked nature of three available theoretical lenses, namely principal‐agent, executive power, and stewardship/stakeholder theories. It argues that institutional theory can provide a useful overarching framework within which appropriate variants of these approaches can be deployed to better comprehend developments in executive pay. We illustrate our approach with a discussion of executive pay in the UK and in Germany.     

企业高管薪酬研究综述

高管薪酬问题是现代公司治理的一个重要议题。文章基于最近发生的金融危机,回顾了国内外的相关研究文献,归纳了企业高管薪酬的决定因素及制定薪酬结构需要考虑的因素。     

Gauss and matlab: A comparison

I compare two high-level matrix programming languages with built-in function libraries and graphics routines. Their interactive nature and convenient syntax makes them ideal for use in econometric applications. The languages are remarkably similar in terms of their features and performance. MATLAB's chief advantage is that it runs on a wider array of hardware and operating systems than GAUSS. GAUSS's main advantage is that it has better coverage of statistical and econometric routines. Overall, MATLAB's features seem best suited for analysing time-series data and other macro econometric applications, while GAUSS is ideal for analysing panel data and other microeconometric applications.     

Executive Compensation,Corporate Governance and Corporate Performance: A Simultaneous Equation Approach

This paper investigates the association between executive compensation and performance. It uniquely utilises a comprehensive set of corporate governance mechanisms within a three‐stage least squares (3SLS) simultaneous equation framework. Results based on estimating a conventional single equation model indicate that the executive pay and performance sensitivity is relatively weak, whereas those based on estimating a 3SLS model generally suggest improved executive pay and performance sensitivity. Our findings highlight the need for future research to control for possible simultaneous interdependencies when estimating the executive pay and performance link. The findings are generally robust across a raft of econometric models that control for different types of endogeneities, executive pay and performance proxies. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.