坚持自主创新实现可持续发展

党的十六届五中全会提出，提高自主创新能力是“十一五”时期的一项主要任务，要把增强自主创新能力作为科学技术发展的战略基点和调整产业结构、转变增长方式的中心环节。这一重要论断是我们党根据国际、国内新的发展形势和我国经济社会发展的阶段性特征，提出的一项重大战略任务，     

外资银行进入对金融稳定的影响

近年来,我国银行业开放取得了重大进展,外资银行对我国金融市场的渗透有限,在相当长的时期内国家控股始终是银行业开放进程中重要的制度约束。外资银行进入可能会加剧中小企业贷款难现象的严重性,但与银行危机的相关性较小,也不会增加我国银行业的系统性金融风险。积极探索多种形式的银行业开放路径,努力提高银行业的风险监管水平,是有效维护金融稳定的两个关键要素。     

东北亚区域经济合作与中小企业

随着区域经济一体化的迅速发展，中小企业在东北亚区域经济合作中正发挥着日益重要的作用。     

城建贷款：风险集中化在潜行

近年来，随着经济的稳步发展，各级地方政府明显加快了城市基础设施建设步伐，城市建设资金需求激增，商业银行城建贷款的投放也快速扩张。由于大多公益性基础设施项目本身没有收益或是收益不足以偿还银行贷款，导致商业银行的城建贷款出现了风险集中化趋势，因而迫切需要研究制定相关管理措施和办法。     

现代农业的"重庆模式"

中国农科院农业经济研究所教授蒋和平说,工业反哺农业,城市支持农村,浙江成为前瞻性的样本,但强大财力支持下的乡村之变,并不能成为中国新农村建设的惟一模式。同样,肩负着如何解决重庆及三峡库区“三农”问题神圣使命的重庆渝北国家农业科技园区,9年来,坚持不向国家要一分钱,始终以自己独立特行的方式,努力探索并勇于创新,为发展现代农业提供了一个典型样本。     

环境友好型社会的经济学思考

文章从经济学的角度分析了环境友好型社会带来的几点思考:(1)环境友好型社会呼唤主流经济学“经济人”假设研究范式的变革;(2)环境友好型社会呼唤传统生产力观的变革;(3)环境友好型社会追求的经济增长是绿色GDP的增长;(4)大力发展循环经济是构建环境友好型社会的根本举措。     

Foreign investment,corporate governance and performance in the Chinese listed A Share companies

We present a novel lens on the presence and impact of qualified foreign institutional investors (QFII) in top shareholdings of the non-financial domestically listed Chinese ‘A’ share firms. The initial results suggest that the presence of a QFII as a top shareholder in these companies is associated with their better performance, using both Tobin’s Q and ROA as the performance measures. Our models include variables representing corporate governance mechanisms, foreign legal person shares, a proxy for international affiliations and a number of time-variant firm characteristics. Economically, the coefficient of impact on the market measure is the more significant, while the effect of having a QFII in top shareholdings on both performance measures is empirically significant. Previously, studies have often ignored the potential for reverse causality beyond using lagged regressors. This is problematic. Therefore, we follow up with a 2SLS instrumental variables and system GMM model to further mitigate this potential and find the empirical relationship holds. Contrary to earlier work on QFIIs and governance post-implementation of the QFII scheme, the findings from our models suggest that the presence of a QFII top shareholder augments market performance holding equal existing corporate governance mechanisms and other controls.     

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.     

Do Analysts Matter for Corporate Tax Planning? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

We exploit an exogenous shock to analyst coverage as a result of brokerage house mergers and closures to examine whether financial analysts influence the tax‐planning activities of the firms they cover. Using a difference‐in‐differences design, we find that, on average, firms affected by broker mergers and/or closures experience a reduction in their GAAP (cash) effective tax rates (ETR) of 2.5 percent (2.6 percent), relative to control firms, translating into average tax expense (cash tax) savings of $34 ($35) million. The treatment effect is more pronounced among firms with lower pre‐event analyst coverage. To explore how analysts affect tax planning, we further document that the treatment effect is greater among firms that lose an analyst who provided an implied ETR forecast in the past, suggesting that analysts influence tax planning via their tax‐specific research efforts. In addition, we find that after merger/closure, weakly governed firms increase their use of aggressive tax strategies, and financially distressed firms experience a larger reduction of cash effective tax rates, relative to control firms. Overall, we provide evidence that a shock to analyst coverage sufficiently changes the cost‐benefit trade‐off of tax planning.     

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