CEO optimism,CEO selection,compensation, and corporate investment decision: The case of CEOs who were rehired as CEOs by another firms after turnover

What happens to CEOs after they are let go by their firm? This study is designed to investigate CEOs who are rehired as CEOs by another firms after turnover. CEOs defined as “moderately optimistic” and those who left voluntarily from their departing firms, are younger, have better prior performance, and work in larger firms are found to have a greater likelihood of being rehired as a CEO by another employer. Moreover, new-hire firms with higher growth opportunity and higher R&D expenditures are found to be significantly more willing to hire overconfident CEOs. Furthermore, more-optimistic CEOs are found to receive higher total compensation from their new-hire firms than CEOs who are less optimistic. Finally, overconfident CEOs working in firms with high growth opportunity and higher R&D show a significantly greater tendency toward increasing firm investment.     

构建农村普惠金融体系的障碍与突破

我国农村金融需求群体众多、金融供给缺口较大,构建农村普惠金融体系十分必要,同时也面临来自用户、金融机构以及环境方面的诸多障碍。要突破各种障碍,必须有正确的导引。政府部门应更新理念,履行义务;金融机构应抓住机遇,承担责任;农村用户应主动行使权利,充分利用金融资源。     

我国互联网金融运行中存在的不足及完善建议

随着“互联网金融时代”的来临,我国互联网金融进入了发展的高峰期。然而,在其实际运行中,存在着诸多的不足,主要体现在互联网金融监管主体监管缺失、互联网金融经营主体信息披露和信息保护不健全、互联网金融系统自身应用技术的不完善三个方面,这些不足严重阻碍了互联网金融的健康有序发展。因此,有必要健全互联网金融监管体系,完善信息披露、保护制度,加强互联网金融消费者权益保护,构建互联网金融信息技术安全制度,有针对性地完善互联网金融运行过程中存在的不足。     

我国农村政策性金融发展的社会网络因素分析

农村政策性金融发展不仅需要从经济有效性视角进行一般分析,还需要从社会合理性视角和经济社会学视角进行探索研究。本文采取跨学科交叉性研究方法,运用新经济社会学相关理论和方法,将农村政策性金融的运行和发展置于其所在的社会网络背景之中,从而在社会网络的制约与影响中进行研究。本文认为农村社会金融网络场域为农村政策性金融发展提供了基本的载体,农村政策性金融应该以农村弱势群体为服务对象;嵌于社会网络中的社会资本需求对农村政策性金融发展具有间接的拉动作用,并提出了构建良性互动、充分发挥农村政策性金融功能的途径和建议。     

加大我国农业财政投入规模的对策建议

改革开放以来,我国的农业投入不足,财政对农业的实际支持程度不高,这也是制约我国农业现代化进程的重要制约因素。农业是国民经济和社会发展的基础,当前我国农业正迈向现代化发展的重要阶段,农业发展急需加大财政投入规模。本文运用统计一般描述法,分析了我国农业财政投入绝对与相对规模,得出农业财政投入绝对规模在不断加大,但是从相对规模看,财政支农支出占财政总支出的比重来看却呈现持续下降的趋势;财政支农支出占农业GDP的比重变化具有十分明显的波动性和阶段性。根据这一结论,提出增加财政收入,加大农业投入力度,把握重点投入,提高农业财政资金使用效率,促进农业投资的法制化与规范化等政策建议。     

Foreign Entry into Underwriting Services: Evidence from Japan's “Big Bang” Deregulation

We examined the effect of foreign entry into bond market underwriting activity using issue‐level data from the Japanese “Samurai” and euro–yen bond markets. We found that the fees charged by Japanese underwriters were higher on average than those of foreign underwriters, but the difference could be explained by conditioning on issue characteristics. Our results also suggest that bond issuers sorted properly across underwriters, as switching across underwriter nationalities would be expected to result in higher fees. However, the savings enjoyed by firms issuing with foreign underwriters were modest and statistically insignificant, while those of firms issuing with Japanese underwriters were substantial and statistically significant. This result suggests that Japanese underwriters priced their services aggressively over the sample period, perhaps in an effort to retain or gain market share. This conjecture is supported by a matching exercise that examined the liberalization of foreign underwriter access to the Samurai bond market, using euro–yen bond issues as a control. Foreign entry led to a statistically and economically significant decrease of 16 basis points on average in underwriting fees in the Samurai bond market. Overall, our results suggest that the international market for Japanese bond underwriting services was partially segmented by nationality as issuers appear to have preferred habitats, but that liberalization increased overall market competition.     

Risk Interpretation of the CAPM's Beta: Evidence from a New Research Method

This study tests the validity of using the CAPM beta as a risk control in cross‐sectional accounting and finance research. We recognize that high‐risk stocks should experience either very good or very bad returns more frequently compared to low‐risk stocks, that is, high‐risk stocks should cluster in the tails of the cross‐sectional return distribution. Building on this intuition, we test the risk interpretation of the CAPM's beta by examining if high‐beta stocks are more likely than low‐beta stocks to experience either very high or very low returns. Our empirical results indicate that beta is a strong predictor of large positive and large negative returns, which confirms that beta is a valid empirical risk measure and that researchers should use beta as a risk control in empirical tests. Further, we show that because the relation between beta and returns is U‐shaped, that is, high betas predict both very high and very low returns, linear cross‐sectional regression models, for example, Fama–MacBeth regressions, will fail on average to reject the null hypothesis that beta does not capture risk. This result explains why previous studies find no significant cross‐sectional relation between beta and returns.     

银行业面对互联网金融挑战的应对策略——基于大数据背景下的思考

伴随着信息技术及互联网的快速发展,社会正在走向全面数字化。大数据、云计算等技术的异军突起使得居民的生活行为方式和企业的生产经营方式都发生了显著变化,科技进步带来的数字化变革正在影响并形成全新的生活习惯和商业模式。在这种大背景下,以网络为载体的互联网金融改变了金融运营模式,传统的银行业正在面临严峻考验。商业银行必须全面认识大数据技术变革带来的影响,转变经营策略,积极应对互联网金融带来的深刻变革。     

上海自贸区发展融资租赁研究

融资租赁在发达国家已成为企业非常重要的一种融资工具,其交易规模仅次于银行信贷。融资租赁具有产融结合的特征,与上海自贸区服务实体经济的方向是一致的。上海自贸区成立后在放宽市场准入、加大税收优惠和提供金融支持等方面的制度创新促进了区内融资租赁的发展,但仍然存在一些制度瓶颈。为促进自贸区融资租赁的进一步发展,需要借鉴国外经验,进一步加大制度创新力度：统一融资租赁公司的政策和监管部门;进一步加大税收政策优惠;实现融资租赁机构的多元化融资和降低融资成本等。     

Framing and the disposition effect: evidence from mutual fund investor redemption behaviour

Research on decision-making under uncertainty has highlighted that individuals often use simple heuristics and/or exhibit behavioural biases. Specifically, with respect to portfolio decisions, research has indicated that investors are subject to the disposition effect, i.e. they are reluctant to sell assets that have performed poorly (losers) and prone to sell assets that have performed well (winners). We find that the mutual fund investors in our sample are subject to the disposition effect when they withdraw the redemption proceeds from their account, but not when they reallocate the proceeds within the account. The evidence is consistent with Shefrin and Statman’s hypothesis that framing a transaction as a transfer as opposed to a sale mitigates the disposition effect.