A Comparison of Cost of Equity Estimates of Local and Global CAPMs

Cost of equity estimates are compared for three pricing models: the traditional local CAPM, the single (market) factor global CAPM, and the two‐factor global CAPM, with both market and currency index factors. For 2989 US stocks, the average difference in the cost of equity estimates is about 48 basis points between the local CAPM and the single‐factor global CAPM, and is about 61 basis points between the two global models. For 70 developed‐market ADRs, the corresponding average differences are 76 and 47 basis points, respectively. For 48 emerging‐market ADRs, the corresponding average differences are 57 and 70 basis points.     

Managing Earnings with Intercorporate Investments

Abstract:  We explore to what extent firms deliberately manage their financial reports by exploiting the flexibility of generally accepted accounting principles. Using a sample of Oslo Stock Exchange-listed firms with 20–50% equity holdings in other firms, we find that firms with high financial leverage tend to maximize reported earnings from these investments through their choice between the cost method and the equity method, possibly in an attempt to reduce debt renegotiation costs or to avoid regulatory attention. In contrast, managers do not systematically bias reported earnings to extract private benefits or to signal revised expectations about future cash flows. Firms use different earnings management tools in a consistent way, as the earnings effect of the cost/equity choice is not offset by discretionary accruals.     

4P、4C与4R:交易费用经济学的视角

4P是经典营销理论的核心内容之一。随着经济、文化和技术的全球化与区域化不断发展,市场竞争异常激烈,顾客在大部分领域取得了绝对的选择权,营销理论随之出现了4C和4R等“崭新”内容。从交易费用经济学的角度看,4C和4R不是对4P的替代,而是一种重要补充和发展。     

降低成本增效益 提高市场竞争力——广西贵港甘化股份有限公司深化企业改革整顿的启示

利用降低成本来增加效益 ,以提高市场竞争力 ,是贵港甘化股份有限公司的成功启示。其做法 :实行成本否决 ,强化成本管理 ;加强购销成本管理 ;因事设岗 ,精简机构 ,减员增效 ;向科技要效益 ,进一步降低成本 ;创名牌上质量 ,提高市场竞争力。     

金融管制理论和方法的演进

管制经济学通常包括经济性管制、社会性管制和反托拉斯管制三大部分。其中经济性管制研究的是自然垄断领域和存在严重信息不对称领域,后者典型的表现形式如金融业。一般的管制经济学因金融业内容丰富,需要独立的研究而较少涉及。而多数金融业管制研究侧重于监管的层面。文章从管制思想的演进、管制理论对金融业的实证研究、金融业管制经济分析和金融管制方法最新进展四个方面对金融管制经济理论进行分析和评述。     

钢铁行业成本核算制度研究

为了解决钢铁行业普遍亏损、经营困难等问题,对当前钢铁行业成本核算面临的各种问题进行分析,相应的提出新制度实施的必要性。而后详细阐述了钢铁行业成本核算制度的基本步骤,且针对行业现有问题说明了新制度的优越性,提出可以选择性使用的作业成本法,最后阐释了新制度可能会对钢铁行业产生的影响和企业在面对新制度想要改善目前严峻形势必须用辩证的眼光看待这一现象,具体问题具体分析,对症下药才是关键。     

商务成本与产业结构关系研究——以广州市为例

文章提出了商务成本的定义,在探讨商务成本的性质的同时,论述了商务成本上升促进产业结构升级的理论基础,进一步提出了商务成本与产业结构之间的关系模型,并利用广州GDP构成数据进行了实证分析,探讨了应对商务成本上升的广州产业发展对策。     

制度创新与民营企业竞争力

制度是决定民营企业竞争力的重要因素。从新制度经济学角度看,制约民营企业竞争力的制度问题主要存在于交易费用、产权、制度构成、制度变迁、制度供求均衡等方面。制度创新能促进民营企业竞争力的提高,途径是：清晰企业产权、实行股权多元化、强化资本运作、完善公司法人治理结构、保护知识产权、放松产业准入限制等。     

The Lack of International Consumption Risk Sharing: Can Inflation Differentials and Trading Costs Help Explain the Puzzle?

The bulk of evidence on the lack of international risk sharing is based on regressions of idiosyncratic consumption growth on idiosyncratic output growth. This paper argues that the results from such regressions obtained from international data are, however, not directly comparable to those based on regional data: the standard practice of running such regressions on international data fails to account for persistent international differentials in consumer prices, whereas—implicitly—most of the literature based on regional data has accounted for these differences. When risk sharing regressions are set up in conceptually the same way in international and regional data sets, the estimated coefficients are also very similar. To explore this result further, we adapt the variance decomposition of Asdrubali et al. (Q J Econ 111:1081–1110, 1996) to allow for deviations from purchasing power parity across countries. While quantity (income and credit) flows are the dominant channel of risk sharing among regions, relative consumption and output price (internal terms of trade) fluctuations account for the bulk of the deviation from the complete markets outcome in international data. To the extent that persistent differences in consumer prices are an indication of goods market segmentation, our findings provide empirical evidence for the proposition by Obstfeld and Rogoff (NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2000, 2000) that segmented international goods markets rather than asset market incompleteness may account for the (apparent) lack of risk sharing between countries.