Can Shareholders Be at Rest after Adopting Clawback Provisions? Evidence from Stock Price Crash Risk

Using a propensity score matched sample and a difference‐in‐differences research design, we find that stock price crash risk increases after a firm voluntarily incorporates clawback provisions in executive officers' compensation contracts. This heightened crash risk is concentrated in adopters that increase upward real activities‐based earnings management and those that reduce the readability of 10‐K reports. Based on cross‐sectional analyses, we also find that the increased crash risk is more pronounced for adopters with high ex ante fraud risk, low‐ability managers, high CEO equity incentives, and low dedicated institutional ownership. Collectively, our results suggest that the clawback adoption per se does not curb managerial opportunism but rather induces managers to use alternative channels for concealing bad news, which may contribute to a greater stock price crash risk; and the increase in crash risk is more likely in cases where incentives are strong or monitoring is weak. Our results should be of interest to regulators and policymakers considering the effects of clawback adoption on the investing public.     

Auditor Experience and the Timeliness of Litigation Loss Contingency Disclosures*

This paper hypothesizes and finds that firms audited by city‐industry specialists have more timely disclosures of contingent losses from litigation when there is no news coverage relating to the legal case prior to management disclosures. A closer examination reveals that this result is explained by the specialist auditors’ prior experience auditing clients in the same office and industry who are involved with litigation. In our setting, disclosures of litigation‐related contingent losses, we identify two kinds of knowledge generated from experience: industry knowledge and litigation knowledge. Industry knowledge helps auditors detect and correct poor implementation of guidance for litigation loss contingency disclosures. Auditors gain litigation knowledge from auditing clients in a given office and industry with previous involvement as defendants. Thus, the two types of knowledge interact in their effects on reporting outcomes.     

China's Free Trade Ports: Effective Action Against the Threat of De‐globalization

With sluggish external demand and increasing trade protectionism by the USA and the European Union, China is facing severe challenges in implementing its deeper, ongoing reforms. To respond actively to such challenges, the Communist Party of China's 19th National Congress proposed to “promote a new pattern of all‐round opening up.” In particular, the establishment of free trade ports is considered an important means to realize deeper integration with the world economy. This paper discusses the background, the motivation, the possible challenges as well as a feasible path for the successful implementation of free trade ports in China. Based on the international experience, the construction of free trade ports in China requires freer trade in goods, high mobility of talent and free capital flow.     

Evaluation of Sustainable Development Indicators for Regions of Russia

It has been shown how static and dynamic characteristics could be used for a comparative assessment of social, environmental, and economic development, as well as the development balance in social, economic, and ecological spheres. The proposed methodological toolkit has made it possible to identify problem areas and stably manifested dynamic disproportions in the investigated regions, which require corrective actions in order to ensure sustainable development.     

国家创新能力提升呼唤自主创新联盟

借助自主创新联盟不断提升企业自主创新能力,以积极主动的姿态应对跨国公司的专利之争和标准之争,是提升我国国家创新能力的客观要求。文章从国家创新能力提升的视角探讨自主创新联盟现象,认为自主创新联盟能够助推国家创新能力的不断提升,并从推动优势企业间的联盟、鼓励战略层面的合作、加强政府支持力度、做好协调整合管理等方面探讨了基于自主创新联盟的国家创新能力提升策略。     

论小城镇建设中的精细化管理模式——以湖北省汉川市马口镇为例

发展小城镇是带动农村经济社会发展的一个大战略。管理指令模糊、计划粗略、执行不力是制约小城镇发展的重要障碍。各级政府特别在小城镇建设中有必要引入精细化管理,这是提高政府管理水平、促进小城镇健康发展、加快社会主义新农村建设的重要途径。文章对湖北省汉川市马口镇在小城镇建设中推行精细化管理的实践作了一些总结,并提出完善小城镇建设中政府精细化管理的对策。     

女性旅游心理探究

目前女性旅游研究的重点在于女性旅游行为和女性旅游市场,而对于女性旅游心理研究的不多。针对这种情况,文章首先提出了"女性旅游心理"的概念,探讨了女性旅游的普通心理特点,并在此基础上,着重分析了不同气质类型、不同年龄阶段、以及女性单身旅游的心理活动及规律,为女性旅游心理方面的研究作一点延伸。     

旅游企业开展网络营销存在的问题和对策——以温州为例研究

旅游网络营销已经成为当前旅游业发展的趋势,旅游业通过与现代信息技术的融合,可以提升旅游目的地的知名度,提高旅游企业的营销效率,降低成本,为旅游企业创造效益。通过分析研究温州旅游企业开展网络营销存在的问题,温州旅游企业应尽快转变旅游营销观念,充分运用现代网络营销技术,改进网络营销手段,并积极开发建设温州旅游电子商务平台,建立专业网络旅游资料库,为游客提供各种旅游相关信息和服务,也为众多的旅游企业提供在线旅游交易,为企业创造商机,促进旅游产业的持续发展和产业升级。     

有效汇率波动对国内价格的传递效应研究

随着我国对外贸易依存度的不断提高,外需成为拉动经济增长的重要动力。人民币相对于美元升值和国内面临的通货膨胀问题受到了国内舆论和国际社会的广泛关注。那么人民币名义有效汇率的变动是否就是国内通货膨胀的主要原因呢?本文利用VAR模型对人民币名义有效汇率的价格传递效应进行了实证分析。估计结果表明,人民币名义有效汇率对进口价格和工业品出厂价格的传递率较高,而对消费者价格的传递率则相对较低,汇率对国内通货膨胀有较弱的解释力。因此本文认为,通过调节人民币名义有效汇率对解决中国的外部失衡有一定的作用,货币政策制度者应当积极关注汇率变动等外部冲击。     

流通股股东在股权分置改革中是否获得了财富增值？

本文的主要的日是从事后的角度分析流通股股东的股票财富在股权分置改革前后的变化.股权分置改革方案的提出和表决是流通股股东和非流通股股东之间的一个讨价还价过程,利益分配取决于双方的谈判力量.统计结果显示,从总体上看,流通股股东的财富在股改前后获得了7%的增值.非流通股比例、股改批次、控股股东性质、市净率是影响流通股股东获得财富增值的主要因素.虽然非流通股比例越大,非流通股股东支付的对价股票也越多,但是,流通股股东享受的财富增值却越低.非流通股比例与对价水平之间正的相关性掩盖了非流通股股东少付对价的事实.总的来说,对价方案是在维持流通股股东股改前后的财富不受损的基础上制定的,而不是补偿流通股股东历史上对上市公司的投入.