Company name fluency and acquisition target analysis

This paper investigates the impact of company name fluency on acquisitions. We hypothesize that a company's name fluency, used by potential acquirers as a mental shortcut, influences not only its visibility to investors but also the level of interest from potential acquirers, increasing the company's acquisition probability. After correcting for endogeneity, company name fluency is positively associated with both the probability of being an acquisition target and an acquisition premium. Reasons for a higher acquisition premium for targets with higher name fluency are identified as reduced need to hire top-tier investment banks and higher synergy.     

政府财务报告改革研究

本文分析了我国预算会计财务报告的现状及存在的问题,基于财政管理体制改革及公共财务管理改革的视角,研究了政府财务报告的目标,认为应借鉴美国政府财务报告改革的经验,改革我国政府财务报告。     

基于溢出效益的研发联盟利润分配设计

研究了如何利用利益分配方式作为激励机制,促使研发联盟成员放弃投机行为(即道德风险);对Shapley值法进行修正并以此为分配依据,设计出研发联盟的利润分配机制,以此激励联盟成员自动选择联盟最优投资策略作为自己的研发投资策略;通过理论及数值仿真算例分析证明,采用修正的Shapley值法进行利润分配,能够实现防范道德风险,促进合作研发的成功。     

经济政策不确定性对宏观经济的影响及其区域差异——基于省级面板数据的PVAR模型分析

采用Baker的中国政策不确定性指数与省级面板数据,运用PVAR模型分析了经济政策不确定性对我国宏观经济的影响与地区差异.研究发现,政策不确定性对我国的经济增长、投资、消费、CPI均产生了短期的负向作用.通过分区域样本的实证分析发现,政策不确定性对东部地区经济增长的影响更大,而对西部地区消费与CPI的影响更大.政策不确定性对东部地区投资的短期影响较显著,而对西部地区投资的长期影响较显著.该结论表明,政府需要保持政策的连续性与稳定性,并关注经济政策不确定的区域效应.     

徽雕艺术的数字化传承

把新媒体数字化艺术与非物质文化遗产徽州雕刻艺术保护和传播进行全新整合,探索当今徽雕艺术数字化保护与利用的科学方法及具体实践,势必将成为我们日后获取徽雕艺术知识的重要手段。数字化传承就是本着发展、推广和应用的观念来传承徽雕艺术,并对其文化内涵进行归纳、提炼及再提升。     

Existence of a Condorcet Winner When Voters Have Other‐Regarding Preferences

In standard political economy models, voters are “self‐interested” that is, care only about “own” utility. However, the emerging evidence indicates that voters often have “other‐regarding preferences” (ORP), that is, in deciding among alternative policies voters care about their payoffs relative to others. We extend a widely used general equilibrium framework in political economy to allow for voters with ORP, as in Fehr and Schmidt (1999) . In line with the evidence, these preferences allow voters to exhibit “envy” and “altruism,” in addition to the standard concern for “own utility.” We give sufficient conditions for the existence of a Condorcet winner when voters have ORP. This could open the way for an incorporation of ORP in a variety of political economy models. Furthermore, as a corollary, we give more general conditions for the existence of a Condorcet winner when voters have purely selfish preferences.     

统筹城乡发展:理论演进与财税政策

新中国成立以来,非均衡发展的战略使我国形成了以二元户籍制度为核心的城乡分割的二元经济、社会体制。本文对二元经济理论的演进路径进行了梳理,提出我国财税政策要从保障城乡公民基本权利、促进劳动力自由流动、提高农业劳动生产率、加快农村专业化水平与分工等方面支持统筹城乡发展,并对财税体制进行相应变革。     

Cross‐border mergers and acquisitions: The role of private equity firms

Research summary: We show that private equity ownership (“PE backing”) of the acquirer is a signal of deal quality in cross‐border takeovers. As such, PE‐backed acquirers experience higher announcement returns in cross‐border takeovers, but only if targets are in poor information environments. We show that PE backing is a positive market signal because of PE firms' experience and networks that result from prior deals in target countries. We document that the market correctly anticipates that operating performance of PE‐backed acquirers increases as a result of cross‐border mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Managerial summary: We study cross‐border acquisitions by acquirers that are partially owned by private equity firms (“PE backing”). Cross‐border acquisitions are challenging as acquirers often have little information about targets. We document that investors react positively to cross‐border deals of PE‐backed acquirers—their stock prices increase upon deal announcements. However, this is only the case if targets are in countries with poor information environments. This is because PE backing allows acquirers to access PE firms' deal experience and networks. This makes it easier to identify and evaluate good targets, making it more (less) likely that a deal eventually creates (destroys) value. Consistent with this, we find that earnings of PE‐backed acquirers increase after buying targets in poor information environments. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Productivity dynamics and the cleansing effect of two recessions: Evidence from the manufacturing sector in Korea

In general, recessions provoke the exit of a greater number of firms from the market. Less productive firms are more likely to exit and release their former resources to the remaining, more productive firms. The present study investigates two recessions in Korea: the Asian financial crisis and the global financial crisis. The main objective of the present study is to analyse the process of creative destruction in a recession, specifically the cleansing effect. We measured total factor productivity using micro‐level manufacturing plant data from 1993 to 2013. We decomposed the source of the changes in total factor productivity to measure the cleansing effect in two large recessions. During the first recession in the 1990s, there was no evidence to support a cleansing effect hypothesis. In contrast, during the second recession in the 2000s, there was evidence of a cleansing effect. In addition, we found differences in market selection criteria in the two recessions; by the second crisis, the market selection criteria had changed to enable a more conducive environment for the creative destruction process.     

中国省级区域国际旅游竞争力决定因素分析

基于理论分析提出了影响我国省级区域旅游目的地国际旅游竞争力的8个决定因素,即旅游资源、旅游资本、旅游业劳动力、政府作用、企业能力、旅游产业结构、基础设施和区位条件。以我国31个省(区)为样本,利用基于面板数据的多元线性回归分析方法,从实证角度定量研究了上述8个决定因素对省级区域国际旅游竞争力影响的显著性及其相对重要性。回归结果显示:我国各省(区)国际旅游竞争力来源的98.5%能够由8个决定因素解释;除旅游产业结构外,其他决定因素对各省级区域国际旅游竞争力的影响均在0.01的水平上显著。