The tax (dis)advantage of a firm issuing options on its own stock

It is common for firms to issue or purchase options on the firm's own stock. Examples include convertible bonds, warrants, call options as employee compensation, and the sale of put options as part of share repurchase programs. This paper shows that option positions with implicit borrowing—such as put sales and call purchases—are tax-disadvantaged relative to the equivalent synthetic option with explicit borrowing. Conversely, option positions with implicit lending—such as warrants—are tax-advantaged. I also show that firms are better off from a tax perspective issuing bifurcated convertible bonds—bonds plus warrants—rather than an otherwise equivalent standard convertible.     

A modified logit model for time series with an application to the pricing behaviour of manufacturing firms in Australia

The modified logit model (Amemiya and Nold, 1975) is generalised to the case where the error term is autocorrelated. The asymptotic distribution (as n →∞ and T →∞) of a feasible GLS estimator of β is derived. Tests of linear restrictions on β and the significance of ρ are presented. The results of the applied work suggest that the factors which explain the pricing behaviour of manufacturing firms, as reported in the tendency survey conducted by the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Westpac Banking Corporation, include historical inflation rates of up to 7 quarters and capacity utilisation. First version received: March 2001/Final version received: July 2002 RID="*" ID="*"  The first draft of this paper was written while the author was on study leave at the Department of Econometrics, University of Sydney, Australia.     

高新技术产业化中风险投资问题的实物期权分析

高新技术产业由于具有投资的不可逆性和很大的收益不确定性,因此不能采用传统的净现值方法来评估是否对其投资。本论文在分析高新技术产业特点的基础上,提出了嵌入期权的现金流量图评估方法,并且根据经验法则求出了风险投资公司应占高新技术企业的股份。     

Pricing access in network competition

We compare various access pricing rules in the two-way access model. We show that the Generalized Efficient Component Pricing Rule (TECPR) leads to a lower equilibrium price than does the Efficient Component Pricing Rule, (ECPR) marginal cost pricing, (MCP) and any non-negative fixed access charges.      

我国城市商业银行的经营模式选择分析

自城市商业银行成立之初，其经营活动就被限制在所在城市。但是近几年来，单一城市制经营模式的负面效应日益显现，并成为城市商业银行进一步发展的障碍。随着地区经济一体化和金融一体化的发展，资金的跨地区流动日益频繁，客户对银行服务和产品的要求也日益多元化，尤其是需要商业银行能够跨区域为其提供金融服务。伴随着城市商业银行改革的向前推进，城市商业银行要求联合、跨区域发展的愿望越来越强烈。实行新的经营模式才能提高城市商业银行的整体发展水平和市场竞争能力。     

关于期权薪酬会计计量方法的思考

股票期权薪酬计量方法的选用一直以来都存在争议,采用不同的计量方法会直接影响到股票期权会计信息的真实性和透明度。本文通过对分别运用内在价值法、最小价值法和公允价值法中的B-S模型和二叉树模型对期权薪酬价值的计算分析,来说明何种计量方法能最有效地实现期权薪酬核算的目的。     

On the Non-Existence of Redundant Options

In a seminal paper, Ross (Q J Econ 90:75–89, 1976) shows that if security markets are resolving, then there exist (non-redundant) options that generate complete security markets. Complementing his work, Aliprantis and Tourky (2002) show that if security markets are strongly resolving and the number of primitive securities is less than half the number of states, then every option is non-redundant. Our paper extends Aliprantis and Tourky’s result to the case when their condition on the number of primitive securities is not imposed. Specifically, we show that if there exists no binary payoff vector in the asset span, then for each portfolio there exists a set of exercise prices of full measure such that any option on the portfolio with an exercise price in this set is non-redundant. Since the condition that there exists no binary payoff vector in the asset span holds generically, redundant options are thus rare. I am grateful to an anonymous referee for very helpful comments. Research support from the School of Business at The George Washington University is gratefully acknowledged     

基于期权定价理论的所有者与债权人代理问题分析

所有者和债权人之间的代理关系是现代公司治理的重要要素,如何理解和处理二者之间的关系成为社会关注的核心。本文从期权角度对所有者与债权人之间的代理关系进行新的理解,并分别介绍了无风险套期保值、B-S期权定价理论模型的具体运用以及保护债权人利益的具体措施。     

用期权定价模型评估企业并购的价值

针对传统企业并购价值评估模型的局限性,本文从期权的角度阐述了企业并购的期权特性,指出企业并购实质上相当于取得了一个看涨期权;并以连续支付红利的美式期权定价理论为基础,建立了企业并购价值评估的期权定价模型。最后,通过实例论述了如何应用该模型来评估企业并购价值,对实践中企业并购价值的合理确定具有重要的指导意义。     

Tax Effects in a Model of Product Differentiation: A Note

We investigate how unit (or specific) tax and ad valorem tax affect equilibrium location choice in a model of product differentiation, which includes Hotelling (linear-city) and Vickrey-Salop (circular-city) spatial models as special cases. We find that neither tax affects equilibrium location patterns as long as each firm has the same production cost. Two taxes can yield different location patterns under cost heterogeneity among firms.