Does corporate governance still affect firm performance after controlling the distress factor?

We explore the impact of corporate governance on firm performance. We first identify whether corporate governance can still be an influential factor or has been largely captured by the traditional Fama-French three-factor model. More importantly, our study adds a financial distress factor to the Fama-French three-factor model to form a four-factor pricing model (labelled as the ‘financial distress four-factor model’). We find that for the US Russell 1000 firms, the financial distress four-factor model is the better model of the two models considered. We further find that the financial distress four-factor model has a higher explanatory power in capturing the return variation. We find that the differences between the return of firms with good (weak) corporate governance and the expected return are insignificantly different from zero for most portfolios in all the two models. The financial distress four-factor model, however, has the fewer portfolios with return difference being significantly different from zero, implying that corporate governance has been better priced in the financial distress factor.     

金沙江中游水电站工程水土保持中存在的问题及对策

本文阐述了金沙江中游水电站建设中水土保持工作的重要性,分析了该区域电站水土保持工作中存在的问题,提出了解决问题的对策措施。     

北京R&D投入与经济增长的灰色关联分析

随着科技投入的加大,R&D投入也越来越被人们所重视。R&D投入不仅对所在区域科技与经济发展具有重要作用,而且对整个国家的科技与经济发展都具有推动作用。本文运用北京2001~2011年R&D经费投入与经济增长的有关数据变量进行灰色关联分析,并根据不同结构建立了相应模型,揭示了北京R&D经费投入与经济增长的关系。     

双弧焊对10Ni3CrMoV钢性能影响的研究

对921A钢进行了热模拟试验,同时对该模拟试样作了50℃冲击功测试,结果表明,试验钢经过双丝焊接热循环后,热影响区各区的低温冲击功普遍低于母材。将冲击功最低试样做光学显微组织分析,结果表明试样的组织由母材的回火索氏体组织转变为贝氏体+粒状贝氏体+少量铁素体;将其冲击断口做电子扫描电镜分析,结果表明整个断口主要为放射区,只有少量纤维区和剪切唇区主要呈解理特征;验证了调整双丝间距和焊速得到合理的热循环是取得优良焊接接头的保证。     

经济政策主要变量对控制中国失业率有效性的实证检验

随着中国经济的增长,失业率却一直居高不下,因此国家采取各种手段进行宏观调控。在回顾各种经济学派对失业理论研究的基础上,着眼于经济政策对控制失业率是否有效,在简要分析货币政策和财政政策对失业率影响的基础上,选取1991—2011年中国城镇登记失业率、货币发行量以及财政支出,通过对三者进行单位根检验和Johansen协整检验,得到三者存在唯一的协整关系,并建立误差修正模型,得出货币发行量对失业率影响较大并且较稳定的结论,并通过格兰杰因果检验,得出货币发行量和财政支出与失业率之间都不存在因果关系,最后在实证研究的基础上对当前中国如何控制失业率提出相应的对策。     

论工程造价结算审核的方法与技巧

工程竣工结算审核是工程造价控制的核心部分,也是一个最为关键的环节,在具体的造价结算审核过程中,需要不断总结经验,取长补短,根据工程的实际情况选择最适宜的审核方式。本文主要分析工程造价结算审核的方法与技巧。     

Water as an investment: liquid yet illiquid!

The water industry is in great need of further large investments to address existing severe water shortages worldwide which requires the participation of private sector investors. This industry is heavily infrastructure based and is therefore saddled with fixed assets-in-place or illiquid assets. This exposes the industry to what is termed as ‘illiquidity risk’, and hence, investors in this industry should be compensated for bearing this risk with an appropriate return premium (i.e. extra return). In this study, we provide evidence as to whether illiquidity risk indeed significantly affects returns in this industry. We examine the case of all 76 firms that compose the five major global water indices. After controlling for other factors that impact on returns, our results suggest that asset illiquidity is positively associated with stock returns. Specifically, water firms with a larger proportion of illiquid assets-in-place are observed to have greater stock returns than those with a smaller proportion of illiquid assets. Our results have important implications for the financing of water-related projects particularly those which involve the participation of investors from the private sector.     

上市公司内部控制信息披露情况研究

企业的内部控制程度对外主要体现在内部信息披露的情况。我国目前对内部信息披露的控制已有了较为完备的规范体系，但执行情况还不容乐观。文章首先介绍了国内外的内部控制信息披露发展情况，然后选取上海证券交易所161家制造行业企业的内部控制信息披露情况作为样本，具体研究了我国《企业内部控制基本规范》实施之前各企业的内部控制信息披露情况。结论显示，在《企业内部控制基本规范》实施之前，我国绝大多数企业没有进行内部控制自我评估报告的注册会计师审核，披露状况让人堪忧。