The Wealth Effect of Domestic Joint Ventures: Evidence from Taiwan

This study presents important international evidence by examining the wealth effect of domestic joint ventures by Taiwanese firms. In opposite to United States evidence, we find that announcements of domestic joint ventures by Taiwanese firms are, on average, associated with significantly negative abnormal stock returns. We also find that the stock market response to announced domestic joint ventures is significantly positively related to the announcing firms' investment opportunities, size of investment and debt ratio, and is significantly negatively related to the business relatedness variable. In contrast, free cash flow, firm size, relative firm size and managerial ownership are found to have no significant power in explaining the market response. Our results support the investment opportunities, synergy and complementarity hypotheses as well as a broad interpretation of the free cash flow hypothesis, but reject the absolute size, relative size and alignment-of-interests hypotheses. This study makes valuable contributions to the literature by providing the first direct evidence on the role of investment opportunities, synergy and alignment-of-interests in explaining the wealth effect of domestic joint ventures     

Price Commitment versus Flexibility: the Role of Exchange Rate Uncertainty and its Implications for Exchange Rate Passthrough

The paper investigates the incentives to commit price or retain price flexibility in a model in which exporting firms face different degrees of exchange rate uncertainty. The result shows that introducing exchange rate uncertainty can lead to the endogenous emergence of a unique leader–follower equilibrium; which firm emerges as price leader depends on the substitutability of products, the magnitude of exchange rate uncertainty, and the cost structure. This study may provide one explanation as to why some exporters set price before the realization of the nominal exchange rates (“sticky price”). The results imply exchange rate variability affects exchange rate passthrough.     

财政分权与义务教育财政管理体制问题探析

我国是成功实施财政分权化的国家之一。作为公共财政框架部分之一的义务教育也实行了分权化管理,义务教育办学的责任主要地落在了县、乡两级地方政府身上。而我国庞大的义务教育事业由县、乡甚至村脆弱的财力来承担,可谓“杯水车薪”：一些农村地区和贫困山区学龄儿童无学可上,无书可读等现象屡见不鲜。可见过度分权化的义务教育财政管理体制是制约当今中国义务教育发展的症结所在。     

Valuation of vulnerable American options with correlated credit risk

This article evaluates vulnerable American options based on the two-point Geske and Johnson method. In accordance with the Martingale approach, we provide analytical pricing formulas for European and multi-exercisable options under risk-neutral measures. Employing Richardson’s extrapolation gets the values of vulnerable American options. To demonstrate the accuracy of our proposed method, we use numerical examples to compare the values of vulnerable American options from our proposed method with the benchmark values from the least-square Monte Carlo simulation method. We also perform sensitivity analyses for vulnerable American options and show how the prices of vulnerable American options vary with the correlation between the underlying assets and the option writer’s assets.      

由上海周边海盐县五金产品的生产与出口观长江三角经济圈对外贸易

上海周边城市的对外贸易是一个十分值得研究的课题,本文主要从海盐紧固件出口综述、影响海盐五金产业因素分析、提出的改革意见和政策意见三个方面对浙江省海盆县五金产业进行了分析.     

浅析深圳中小企业板的发展问题

在深圳中小企业板正式设立之后,如何使其能平稳过渡到最后的创业板成为各界关注的焦点。本文通过分析海外创业板市场,总结出了一些对深圳中小企业板发展有价值的观点。     

对绿色GDP核算的几点思考

本文指出现行GDP的缺陷,论述了绿色GDP的必要性,并对当前一些绿色GDP核算尝试性的方法进行分析,提出在绿色GDP核算中,固定资产折旧部分不是当期新创造的价值,要给予扣除。并对绿色GDP核算中存在的难点进行了探讨。     

湖南省小城镇建设投融资机制探索

是否有足够的资金投入对于推进小城镇建设至关重要。本文分析了湖南省小城镇建设的投融资现状,在此基础上提出了创新湖南小城镇建设投融资机制的具体思路。     

当代“人”的发展问题论纲

追求“每个人的自由发展”是马克思主义的精华。由注重“物”到注重“人”是当代世界人类文明发展的基本价值取向,也是“社会主义市场经济体制模式”的题中应有之义。从主体和客体两方面分析,注重人的发展是历史唯物论的基本原理,而不是什么“历史唯心论”。在确定“人”作为现代发展体系的核心之后,中国应力求避免“人本工具论”,而应秉持“人本实质论”;并由“低端人本”向“高端人本”升华。中国改革开放以来,突出的成效是人的主体性的释放和发挥。尽管释放的能量还较小,但是它是具有旺盛生命力的。此文对中国的“第二次革命”促进人自身发展的内在机制、成效及问题作了分析．并就在新的历史阶段如何进一步促进人的自身发展提出五点方略。