Trade Credit, Corporate Groups, and the Financing of Belgian Firms

We investigate the role of trade credit as a source of financing. Using a sample of 661 large non-financial Belgian firms for the 1989–1991 period, we find that the amount of trade credit a buyer takes is determined by his need for funds and the internally available funds. Trade credit is primarily used to finance short-term assets. As such, it seems to be an important alternative not only for short-term bank debt but also for long-term financial debt, including intragroup debt. We find no evidence that the amount of trade credit taken is influenced by affiliation with the supplier.     

Asymmetric Information,Asset Allocation,and Debt Financing

We analyze a signaling game where firms' financing announcements convey private information about their prospects but a moral hazard problem exists in that managers may suboptimally invest. Consequently, the attempt to address an asymmetric information problem exacerbates moral hazard. The equilibrium recognizes both imperfect information problems. Additionally, the firm must determine how to allocate funds between two technologies differing in cash flow timing and managerial accessibility. We define an above-average firm's comparative advantage as that technology which is most dominant relative to a firm with lesser prospects and show that the resultant equilibria follow the lines of the firm's comparative advantage. Finally, we show that separation may be achieved costlessly, i.e., with no explicit signaling cost.     

资源流动性与经济转型时期的中国地方财政职能

传统财政理论在论述地方财政职能时,都隐含着资源可以在各辖区间充分流动的理论前提,在此前提下,地方政府在宏观经济稳定和再分配方面的作用有限;但是,新近的一些观点对此提出了挑战,而处于经济转型时期的中国地方财政的实际职能也充分地印证了这些新的观点.从长远来看,中国地方财政职能的有效发挥,有赖于中央和地方之间合理地划分事权.在此基础上,经济转型时期的中国地方财政职能才能不断优化,财政支出效率也能得到提高.     

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.     

乡镇财政自给能力分析

乡镇财政危机目前作为一个重要问题成为各界关注焦点,乡镇财政赤字和负债数额巨大,乡镇财政自给程度到底有多大,本文运用财政能力系数指标来定量探讨乡镇财政的危机程度,通过全国五级财政自给系数纵向对比、分省区四级财政自给能力纵向和横向对比以及两个乡镇个案的财政自给系数,来揭示乡镇财政危机的制度内涵.     

One Type of Security in Retrospect

The case for capitalizing large firms solely with ordinary shares (common stock) is extended by rebutting the arguments of Williams and Finlay (1983) that common stock is obsolete. An account of the historical origins of the supporting elements of the one-security plan is provided. Of the arguments and evidence to be presented, some will be recapitulations of points made earlier and some will be additional.     

普惠金融对产业结构升级的作用机制与效应研究

在深化金融供给侧改革的背景下,基于2008—2019年中国省级数据,研究普惠金融发展与产业结构升级之间的关系,揭示普惠金融对产业结构升级的直接效应和空间溢出效应,并借助中介效应模型探究直接效应的作用路径。研究表明普惠金融可以通过人力资本积累、促进技术创新和提高资源配置效率三条路径推动产业结构升级,并且可以基于地理和经济联系对产业结构升级产生正向空间溢出效应。因此建立系统化的长期性政策保障体系,推动普惠金融发展,有利于推进产业结构升级进程,促进经济高质量发展。