Is regulatory adoption ceremonial? Evidence from lead director appointments

Research Summary: Regulatory bodies often wrestle with the thorny question of whether to mandate a governance practice or allow for organic adoption. While mandates afford rapid diffusion, we theorize that they also result in ceremonial adoptions. Leveraging a quasi‐natural experiment, we compare adoption outcomes for a governance practice—lead director adoption—that was mandated by the NYSE but not the NASDAQ. We find that NYSE firms are more likely than NASDAQ firms to have installed a lead director as a symbolic management tactic, so their lead directors are less effectual. We also find that transient institutional investors are deceived by this symbolic management, but dedicated institutional investors are not. Managerial Summary: Shareholders and analysts often desire to see companies introduce strict governance measures, such as proxy access and independent boards. Consequently, regulatory bodies often wrestle with the thorny issue of whether and when to mandate such practices for all companies. What they might not realize is that mandates may not work as well as they seem. Although more companies adopt reform under a mandate, they do so merely as a symbolic gesture. We look at one governance reform—appointing a lead director—finding that companies who introduce this reform as a result of a mandate appoint someone that is relatively toothless. We also find, though, that savvy investors are not actually fooled by this tactic and will trade out of firms that attempt such symbolic management.     

Catch Animal Spirits in Auction: Evidence from New Zealand Property Market

Following the animal spirits theory proposed by Akerlof and Shiller, this article contributes to behavior economics by investigating the possibility of using auction sales data to capture evidence of irrational exuberance in the housing market. Using the monthly percentages of residential property auction sales for Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch regions in New Zealand from 2006 to 2015, and the exuberance testing method proposed by Phillips, Shi and Yu, we find that animal spirits have been developing in the Auckland housing market since 2013, but not in other regions. When compared to the results based on price‐to‐rent ratios, auction sales provide more meaningful results for identifying market‐wide irrational exuberance at an early stage. The causality test on price‐to‐rent ratios and auction sales volume shows that asset prices and animal spirits influence each other in the short run. In the long run, prices have significant effect on animal spirits, but not vice versa.     

金融危机视域下的美国消费型社会困境及其对中国的启示

金融危机背景下,美国经济学界发起了一系列深刻的辩论,其中对于当前的经济状态与市场原教旨主义的反思和批判成为这次辩论的重要内容。很多学者认为,美国的消费型社会已经遭到了市场原教旨主义政策的侵蚀,这次金融危机的根源需要上溯到里根政府的自由化政策,呼吁奥巴马政府效仿罗斯福新政对美国社会进行重塑。中国当前正在进行内向型发展模式的转型,美国的经验与政策大辩论可以为我们提供一些有益的启示。     

税收变化与上市公司股利政策选择

本文通过在回归方程中引入反映税率政策变化的虚拟变量,主要分析了2006年前后上市公司的股利政策是否随税率变化做出调整。实证结果显示,中国上市公司股利政策行为与经典财务理论相悖,表明上市公司缺乏回报股东的责任意识,股东利益并不是影响他们股利政策的主要因素。研究还发现,在研究期内融资成本的下降趋势对提高上市公司股利派发水平有正面影响,而投资机会和上市公司短期偿债能力对上市公司股利政策的影响并不显著。     

Lost in translation: Delayed ex-dividend price adjustments of Hong Kong ADRs

Previous research documents that Hong Kong stocks have a full ex-dividend price adjustment consistent with dividends and capital gains being tax free. We examine ex-dividend price behavior of Hong Kong ADRs to assess the impact of differing tax environments in US and Hong Kong. These ADRs typically go ex-dividend before their underlying stock. They experience significant abnormal returns of 1.16% on their ex-day; the average ex-day price drop is only 30% of the dividend. However, ADR prices drop when the underlying stock goes ex-dividend subsequently. The cumulative ADR price drop is equal to the dividend. Thus, the ADR ex-dividend adjustment resembles that of the underlying stock, consistent with home country tax laws governing ADR price behavior. Neither liquidity nor transaction costs can explain the anomalous delayed ex-dividend adjustment of ADRs.     

我国典型城市房地产开发企业融资模式比较研究

自2003年实施宏观调控政策以来,房地产企业融资问题便成为一个焦点.随着市场竞争的加剧及宏观调控累积效应的显现,越来越多的房地产开发商面临融资压力,如何解决好房地产融资问题已经迫在眉睫.因此,在这一背景下研究我国房地产开发企业的融资状况及存在的问题,对于房地产行业的健康发展有着重要的意义.     

面向可持续发展的财务学:困境与出路

环境问题已经成为各个学科研究的一个热点问题,但有关环境问题的财务学探讨无论是理论还是实践都较为薄弱,滞后于我国目前提出的可持续发展的战略目标。传统财务学在处理环境问题、促进可持续发展方面正面临困境,可持续发展对财务学提出了新的要求,将环境因素纳入财务学,构建可持续发展导向的财务学路径对于改善生态环境,实现社会、企业和环境的协调发展具有重要意义。     

构建期货市场战略联盟的理论及应用研究

期货市场的系统性和复杂性决定了期货价格发现与风险规避操作的难度,围绕着期货如何为实体企业服务这个问题,有必要构建战略联盟来实现期货市场功能。本文从期货公司发展的角度,认为要全面满足客户的稳定生产和经营利润的需求,同时实现客户锁定,必须组建期货市场战略联盟,期货公司可与科研组织、贸易仓储企业、投资公司和海外期货公司等结成战略联盟,实现资源共享、信息互通,充分利用期货市场为实体企业的风险管理提供一站式的解决方案和顺畅的通道服务。     

关于地铁兼具载客、物流功能的可行性分析

提出了一种使地铁兼具载客、物流功能的改造方案,该方案结合了地铁运行优点和城市物流特点,针对已有地铁线路的站台进行合理改造,并指导新地铁线路的建设,使其可以有效地利用客流低谷期和非载客时间两个时间区间,即在客流低谷期实现安全载客和高效物流作业,以及在非载客时间区间专司物流,最大化地利用地铁交通资源,实现城市物流的高速、高效和标准化。     

浅论直埋蒸汽管道技术与施工

文章简略论述了目前国内直埋蒸汽管道技术特点和施工中的注意事项。