The effect of corporate governance on CEO luck: Evidence from the Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS)

CEOs are “lucky” when they receive stock option grants on days when the stock price is the lowest in the month of the grant, implying opportunistic timing. Extending the work of Bebchuk et al. (2010), we explore the effect of overall corporate governance quality on CEO luck. Provided by the Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), our comprehensive governance metrics are much broader than those used in prior studies, encompassing more diverse aspects of corporate governance, such as audit, state laws, boards, ownership, and director education. We show that an improvement in governance quality by one standard deviation diminishes CEO luck by 14.77–21.06%. The governance standards recommended by ISS appear to be effective in deterring the opportunistic timing of option grants.     

Risk,uncertainty and monetary policy

The VIX, the stock market option-based implied volatility, strongly co-moves with measures of the monetary policy stance. When decomposing the VIX into two components, a proxy for risk aversion and expected stock market volatility (“uncertainty”), we find that a lax monetary policy decreases both risk aversion and uncertainty, with the former effect being stronger. The result holds in a structural vector autoregressive framework, controlling for business cycle movements and using a variety of identification schemes for the vector autoregression in general and monetary policy shocks in particular. The effect of monetary policy on risk aversion is also apparent in regressions using high frequency data.     

Deterrence or Conflict Spiral Effect? Exercise of Coercive Power in Marketing Channels: Evidence from China

Purpose: The article aims to test the appropriateness of deterrence and conflict spiral models in marketing channels. Both models have been alternatively used as bases to explain firms’ power-related behaviors in marketing channels. However, the issue of the appropriateness of such an application in various contexts has not yet been addressed.

Methodology/approach: The authors develop the hypotheses based on deterrence theory and their alternatives based on conflict spiral theory. They gather data from 204 sales representatives of suppliers in China and use linear regression analysis to test their hypotheses versus alternatives.

Empirical findings: The data analysis offers supportive evidence for the deterrence logic but with unexpected results. By elaborating on the empirical results, the original assumption of deterrence theory, and the nature of interfirm relationship in marketing channels, the authors modify the deterrence model for research on power related-behaviors in the given context. The analysis implies a possible explanation for inconsistent findings in the literature regarding exercises of coercive power.

Originality/value/contribution: This article proposes a revised deterrence model that can interpret the empirical results with a consistent logic and better predict power-related behaviors in marketing channels.

Research limitations/implications: The research results may lack generalizability with respect to channel type and culture. It does not directly test the cognitive mechanisms that mediate the impact of power on its exercise. Researchers are encouraged to directly test the mediating constructs in other channels or countries.

Practical implications: The article includes some insights and implications for managers in understanding power structure and implementing influence strategies in business-to-business marketing.     

Food for Thought? A Rejoinder on Peer-review and RAE2008 Evidence

This Rejoinder responds to criticisms made by Simon Hussain (2011) Hussain, S. 2011. Food for thought on the ABS Academic Journal Quality Guide. Accounting Education: an international journal, 20(6), : 545–559. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar] about the construction and operation of the Association of Business Schools' (ABS) Academic Journal Quality Guide. In this paper the broad purposes of journal lists and guides are outlined before an account is given of the long history and multiple forms of these lists, particularly in the field of Accounting. Having described the main features of different types of journal list, the advantages and benefits of the approach adopted in the compilation of the ABS Journal Quality Guide is outlined. The paper then ends by noting that one of the copy-editing mistakes identified by Dr Hussain has been rectified, but the remaining concerns about the rating of accounting education and accounting history journals reflect the absence of these titles from journal citation reports and international journal lists. Furthermore, the lower rating of Accounting & Finance research in the RAE2008 in comparison with Business & Management Studies research in the same year and Accounting & Finance research in 2001, has more to do with the way in which the Accounting & Finance Panel calibrated and normalized its judgements than with the ratings contained within the ABS Guide.     

论双师型背景下的教师企业挂职锻炼——以许昌学院旅游管理专业为例

在双师型背景下,旅游管理专业教师到企业挂职锻炼已经成为本科院校提升教师实践技能和职业素质的捷径,但是在具体实施过程中因为现实条件的制约,在实际挂职的过程中还存在很多问题。从许昌学院旅游管理专业的实际出发,从学校、企业、教师三方面分析,要全面有效地提升挂职锻炼的成效,需要学校加强挂职制度建设,企业搭建好平台,教师要转换观念,发挥主动性和积极性。     

汇率不确定性与企业跨境并购

本文立足外部不确定性视角,提出汇率不确定性对企业重要涉外经济行为(跨境并购)影响的实物期权与风险对冲效应。本文以2000～2019年A股上市公司宣告的跨境并购为研究对象,分析发现人民币兑美元名义汇率不确定性显著降低了企业跨境并购的可能性,实物期权效应占主导;人民币名义有效汇率不确定性与企业跨境并购决策正相关,风险对冲效应占主导。横截面检验发现,人民币兑美元名义汇率不确定性对跨境并购的抑制作用在汇率交易风险和折算风险更高以及存在融资约束的企业中更为明显;有效汇率反映一国贸易条件,行业竞争激烈与汇率经济风险更高的企业,在人民币名义有效汇率不确定性加剧时更有可能进行跨境并购。最后,汇率不确定下的企业跨境并购取得了较好的财务绩效(汇率风险约束使企业并购行为更审慎高效),降低了有效汇率风险敞口。本文区分了双边汇率与有效汇率的差异,拓展了汇率波动的经济后果与跨境并购影响因素的研究范畴,为“双循环”下我国推进高质量对外开放与汇率市场化改革、有效引导国际资本流动以及企业在不确定环境下提升并购效率,提供了理论依据。     

保本型股票挂钩结构性外汇理财产品定价研究

内容本文首先针对单资产股票挂钩保本型结构性产品的期权特性,在一定的假设前提下,根据风险中性定价原理,借鉴Black-Scholes期权定价方法,对受汇率波动影响的外汇理财产品进行定价研究,并得出定价公式,然后运用中国民生银行非凡理财第四期的两年期产品为案例进行定价分析,结果表明该产品收益率设计是合理的。     

体制性约束、双重失衡与政策权衡——全球金融危机挑战与中国的财政政策选择

在中国经济发展总量得到实质性提高的今天,重新实施积极财政政策,其着眼点不仅在于应对这次全球金融危机对中国带来的冲击,更重要的是利用这次契机化解中国经济发展长期存在的体制性约束,转变中国经济增长方式,实现经济的稳定和可持续增长。财政政策也因此面临着如何权衡缓解经济危机冲击和实现经济长期稳定发展的问题。从中国财政政策实践来看,单纯的反周期调节可以拉动经济走出低迷,却无力恢复经济的自主增长动力,应对当前中国经济出现的长期内部失衡更需要财政政策着眼于整个改革过程和整个经济结构。本文基于金融危机背景下中国面临双重失衡的判断,提出了中国经济发展内外失衡的概念,并探讨了两种失衡条件下财政政策的运行原理,同时以转轨背景下中国所面临的体制性约束为限制条件,考察了财政政策困境的现实根源,并给出了财政政策权衡的政策涵义。     

基于实物期权的高科技项目投资机会价值和投资决策研究

分析和判断高科技项目是否有投资的价值以及什么时间进行投资,已经成为投资决策中的重要问题。本文基于实物期权方法,建立了高科技项目投资机会价值和投资时机选择模型,给出了模型不同情况下的解,分析了不同的参数对投资机会价值以及投资时机的选择的影响。