Concentrated Control,Analyst Following,and Valuation: Do Analysts Matter Most When Investors Are Protected Least?

This paper uses a sample of more than 2,500 firms from 27 countries to investigate the relation among ownership structure, analyst following, investor protection, and valuation. We find that analysts are less likely to follow firms with potential incentives to withhold or manipulate information, such as when the family/management group is the largest control rights blockholder. Furthermore, this relation is stronger for firms from low-shareholder-protection countries. Using valuation regressions that take into account potential endogeneity between analyst following and firm value, we find a positive valuation effect when analysts cover firms that have both potentially poor internal governance and weak country-level external governance. Overall, our findings suggest that corporate governance plays an important role in analysts' willingness to follow firms and that increased analyst following is associated with higher valuations, particularly for firms likely to face governance problems.     

Disentangling the Incentive and Entrenchment Effects of Large Shareholdings

This article disentangles the incentive and entrenchment effects of large ownership. Using data for 1,301 publicly traded corporations in eight East Asian economies, we find that firm value increases with the cash-flow ownership of the largest shareholder, consistent with a positive incentive effect. But firm value falls when the control rights of the largest shareholder exceed its cash-flow ownership, consistent with an entrenchment effect. Given that concentrated corporate ownership is predominant in most countries, these findings have relevance for corporate governance across the world.     

浅谈以财务报告为目的的投资性房地产评估业务

国际会计准则（以下简称IAS）经过长达十余年的修订,逐渐完善了公允价值和投资性房地产的概念．及投资性房地产计量和披露的要求。在世界范围内．各国或各地区会计准则制定机构逐渐认识到．统一或趋同的会计准则将给财务报告使用者带来便利,     

THE ROLE OF MAJOR OIL COMPANIES IN LONG DISTANCE GAS PIPELINE PROJECTS

For several years now, BP has been trying to identify new opportunities to supply gas into North East Asia, including the rapidly expanding Chinese market. It expects gas demand to continue to increase faster in the Asia Pacific region than elsewhere in the world,and its analysis suggests gas demand there will grow to around 470 bcm by 2010 or by almost 6% per year. Since oil majors have rich escperience of managing large     

Neo-protectionism and economic growth

The world economy is threatening to find itself in a vicious circle of escalating protectionism. Franz Peter Lang explains the dangers and consequences of this. Gary Banks argues that the “new protectionism” is not so much a temporary by-product of the recession as the external manifestation of internal domestic struggles between vested interests and the public interest, and pleads for the establishment of a “transparency institution”.     

AGENT BANK BEHAVIOR IN BANK LOAN SYNDICATIONS

Using Shared National Credit (SNC) Program data from 1995 to 2000, we extend previous empirical work on bank loan syndications. First, we examine recent trends in the volume and examiner‐based credit quality of loans syndicated through the banking system. Second, we estimate a panel regression model to explain changes in an agent bank's retained share of a syndicated loan in terms of information asymmetries, loan credit quality, capital constraints, and loan age and maturity. We find that these variables are significant determinants of the proportion of a SNC loan retained by an agent bank for its portfolio over time.     

辽宁土地资源开发利用战略取向研究

在工业化、城镇化、现代化及生态化建设的重要发展阶段,土地资源供需矛盾日益突出.就辽宁而言,现阶段,确立一个前瞻性的、科学的土地资源开发利用战略取向是一项重要的研究课题.本文结合辽宁土地开发利用中的战略目标、重点领域,依据国家相关的法律、法规,对我省土地开发利用的原则、战略取向等问题做了初步的探讨.