CEO's empathy and salience of socioemotional wealth in family SMEs – The moderating role of external directors

A focus on preserving socioemotional wealth may influence entrepreneurial activities in family firms. In this paper, we identify the emotion of empathy in the family CEO as an antecedent of socioemotional wealth creation. We argue that the presence of one or more external directors can have a direct as well as moderating influence on the relationship between CEO's empathy and the salience of socioemotional wealth to the family CEO. Our empirical tests confirm these hypotheses. Several areas of future research are suggested to incorporate empathy and other emotions in family business studies.     

国民财富变化与可持续发展

当代的经济学家认为可持续发展就是创造、保持和管理财富的过程。结合1995~2005年的国民财富变动数据,分析当前世界与中国的国民财富变化特征,可以从变化中对当前世界不同发展程度国家及中国的可持续发展现状做出评价。     

多元文化共谋下的当代商贾历史叙事

当代商贾历史小说在多元期待视野下演绎儒商故事、财富神话和国族想象,呈现出多重叙事动机和多重文化内质。这是新兴的商业经济力量表达自身文化和意识形态诉求的结果,也折射出当代商业意识形态与社会主流意识形态、大众意识形态之间博弈且调和共生的局面。     

国民财富变化与可持续发展

当代的经济学家认为可持续发展就是创造、保持和管理财富的过程。结合1995~2005年的国民财富变动数据，分析当前世界与中国的国民财富变化特征，可以从变化中对当前世界不同发展程度国家及中国的可持续发展现状做出评价。     

Is Merge and Acquisition Tunneling or Propping？ Evidence from Asset Appraisal

本文以评估增值率和评估方法的选择作为掏空或支持行为的观测变量，实证检验了2001-2010年上市公司并购重组过程中控股股东与地方政府的掏空或支持行为，并考察了不同盈亏状况下所存在的行为差异。研究发现，关联并购交易和同属并购交易中存在控股股东的掏空行为和地方政府的支持行为；盈利企业的控股股东将通过操纵资产的评估增值率来实现其对上市公司的掏空，并试图通过选择评估方法来掩盖其行为，而亏损公司所属地方政府则可能通过干预同属公司问并购交易的资产评估实现对上市公司的支持。     

关联交易与控制性股东的"隧道行为"

在信息不对称情况下,控制性股东能够利用其对上市公司的控制力或影响力进行非公允关联交易,从而以其他投资者的利益为代价从上市公司攫取财富.本文以1998-2005年实施配股的上市公司为样本,分析了配股后上市公司关联交易的分布特征,并研究了关联交易对控制性股东资金占用行为、股票收益和企业价值的影响.研究结果表明:(1)控制性股东通过关联借贷大量侵占了上市公司的资金;(2)投资者在关联交易发生后相应调整了股票价格,导致了上市公司股票收益下降;(3)控制性股东通过隐蔽的关联交易从上市公司输出了财富,造成了以托宾Q衡量的公司价值下降,关联交易与公司价值之间存在负相关关系.非公允关联交易成为控制性股东掠夺中小股东财富的重要方式,导致上市公司的资源被不断输送出去.     

公司股东违反出资义务民事责任之探析

本文在分析股东出资义务的性质及其表现形式的基础上,重点论述了公司股东违反出资义务所应承担的民事责任。     

我国企业财务目标问题探究

在社会主义市场经济体制下 ,企业财务目标最大化问题日益成为我国财务理论界和企业界关注的焦点 ,较为主流的观点是“股东财富最大化”。笔者认为 :这一观点不符合我国国情 ,而且缺乏可操作性 ,无法带来社会财富最大化 ,“相关者利益最大化”应是我国企业财务的最终目标。     

Why Do Some Households Save So Little? A Rational Explanation

This paper offers an explanation for the puzzle of low wealth holdings among a significant fraction of the elderly. Instead of invoking irrational, nonrational, or nonoptimal behavior to resolve the puzzle, it is shown that widespread low wealth holdings are consistent with a rational life-cycle model of saving with uncertain lifetime and borrowing constraint. When there is uncertainty about the length of life, it is optimal for some individuals to save little and exhaust their wealth early. The characteristics of these individuals are derived. The simulation results support that the model can account for low wealth holdings as well as early terminal wealth depletion. The analysis also rejects the common perception that uncertain lifetime reduces dissaving. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Numbers: D11, D91, E21, I12, J14.     

House prices, money, credit, and the macroeconomy

This paper assesses the links between money, credit, house prices,and economic activity in industrialized countries over the lastthree decades. The analysis is based on a fixed-effects panelvector autoregression, estimated using quarterly data for 17industrialized countries spanning the period 1970–2006.The main results of the analysis are the following. (i) Thereis evidence of a significant multidirectional link between houseprices, monetary variables, and the macroeconomy. (ii) The linkbetween house prices and monetary variables is found to be strongerover a more recent sub-sample from 1985 to 2006. (iii) The effectsof shocks to money and credit are found to be stronger whenhouse prices are booming.