机构投资者持股、治理环境与审计意见购买

以2003—2018年A股上市公司为样本的分析表明,机构投资者持股能显著抑制基于签字审计师变更的审计意见购买行为。这种抑制作用的发挥需要依赖良好的内外部治理环境,因机构投资者类型而存在显著差异,但不因机构投资者稳定性或专注性而发生显著变动。此外,在控制持股比例后,机构投资者数量的抑制作用不再显著。上述结果为机构投资者治理成效提供了积极证据,也为相关部门更好地培育中长期投资者、提高上市公司质量提供了借鉴。     

投资现金流敏感性研究述评

大量的经验文献支持了流动性假说,认为内部现金流是影响公司投资的一个重要因素。文中基于信息不对称下的融资约束理论与自由现金流的代理成本假说,回顾了关于投资现金流敏感性存在及其根源的国内外相关研究成果,梳理了该领域的研究脉络,并对主要结论进行了总结与评论。对文献研究发现,大多数研究均证实了投资与现金流之间具有较强的敏感性,但挖掘这种敏感性的根源却尚未达成一致的结论。尤其随着股权结构的引入,考虑到管理层内部持股的激励与堑壕效应、股权集中下控股股东的监督与侵占效应,该领域的研究纷繁复杂。但基于股权结构的研究是揭示这种敏感性的根源、探索非效率投资治理机制的有效途径。     

Stock liquidity and stock prices crash-risk: Evidence from India

In this paper, we examine the role of stock liquidity as a governance mechanism to discipline managers for withholding bad news (stock price crash-risk). This topic is useful to emerging markets because the dominance of controlling owners limits the monitoring of internal governance. Stock liquidity can be altered by the financial market regulations, thereby improving firm-level governance. In empirical analysis, we show that stock liquidity decreases stock price crash-risk. We identify two possible mechanisms through which stock liquidity reduces stock price crash-risk: the threat of intervention and price informativeness.     

董事会结构、股权结构与中小企业绩效

以中小企业板2004～2009年数据为基础,分析了中小上市企业董事会结构、股权结构与绩效之间的关系。实证结果表明,中小上市企业的董事会结构、股权结构与绩效之间的内生性特征不显著。董事会规模对Tobin’Q具有负向影响,对总资产收益率无显著影响。CEO双重性对Tobin’Q和总资产收益率分别具有负向影响和正向影响。董事会独立性对总资产收益率具有负向影响,对Tobin’Q无显著影响,表明独立董事在中小上市企业中并未起到有效的监督作用。Tobin’Q和股权集中度之间呈现显著的倒W形关系,但总资产收益率和股权集中度之间无显著相关性。Tobin’Q和总资产收益率与管理层持股之间均呈现显著的N形关系。     

Ownership, institutions, and capital structure: Evidence from China

We employ a unique data set to explore the role of ownership structure and institutional development in debt financing of non-publicly traded Chinese firms. We show that state ownership is positively associated with leverage and firms’ access to long-term debt, while foreign ownership is negatively associated with all measures of leverage. Surprisingly, firms in better developed regions are associated with reduced access to long-term debt, suggesting the availability of alternative financing channels and the tightening of the lending standards under the on-going banking reform. The combination of ownership structures and institutions explains up to 6% of the total variation in firms’ leverage decisions, while firm characteristics alone explain no more than 8% of the variation. Further, we show that non-state-owned firms tend to have lower total and short-term debt than their state-owned counterparts in less developed regions. Finally, we show that state-owned firms’ easy access to long-term debt is positively associated with long-term investment and negatively associated with firm performance.     

I am therefore I own: Implications of organization-based identity for employee stock ownership

Most research on employee stock plan participation investigates the effects of such forms of ownership on employee attitudes, leaving our understanding of the individual differences that contribute to employee ownership largely unknown. Drawing from the consumer behavior literature, our study explores the effect of organization-based identity on the decision to participate in an employee stock purchase plan. The study was conducted in a newly public firm where we examine the effect of organization-based identity on the purchase decision in two time periods. The first point in time was the initial public offering (IPO), when the employee has little information on how the firm's stock will perform in the market. The second point in time was the first quarter following the IPO, when employees have market data to help them with decision-making. Results indicate that, as predicted, organization-based identity is associated with participation in an employee stock purchase plan, at both points in time, above and beyond the influence of several economic and psychological predictors reported in prior studies.     

我国上市公司股权集中度与公司绩效的理论与实证研究

本文以净资产收益率、主营业务资产收益率及市净率为被解释变量,股权集中度为被解释变量,并使用公司总资产的自然对数代表公司规模、财务杠杆、净利润增长率作为控制变量,从公司治理角度分析股权结构对公司绩效的影响。从农林牧渔业、采掘业、制造业等11个行业中挑选了923家上市公司为样本,分别对样本总体和各行业的数据进行了回归分析。此研究的政策意义在于现阶段上市公司治理结构的改革不应盲目模仿英美模式无视中国的国情,过于强调股权分散。认为只有保持股权的适度集中才有助于我国上市公司的长远发展和整体绩效的提高。     

内部人改制的理论争议

当前国有中小企业改制过程中,存在着国有企业管理层和职工共同购买原国有企业产权,将国有企业改成员工所有制企业的改制模式,本文将其称为内部人改制。针对内部人改制,理论上争论颇多,本文综述了支持内部人改制的理论假设和质疑内部人改制的理论假设,以期加深对当前内部人改制的认识,也可为下一步实证研究提供理论准备。     

State privatization and the unrelenting expansion of neoliberalism: The case of the Greek financial crisis

The existing literature has identified two waves of reforms within the neoliberal agenda of state privatization, deregulation and new public management. This study examines what we call the third wave of neoliberal reforms of governmentality, in which members of central governments and public servants increasingly come to think and behave like business entrepreneurs. We address the matter through the lens of crises theoretically capable of undermining neoliberalism's legitimacy. Specifically, we aim to better understand the manufacturing of consent to the neoliberal agenda of state privatization. We study the falsification of Greek public accounts as revealed in 2010, relying on empirical material, such as journalistic statements and reports from international institutions. Our analysis indicates that, although the Greek crisis provided an opportunity to question key aspects of contemporary state management, including the practice by governments of creative finance, the main problematizing trajectories articulated in both the media and political arenas did not destabilize but consolidated neoliberalism. In particular, we illustrate how discursive activity favors the emergence of a collective interpretation of crises that perpetuates the hold of neoliberalism over the social and political realms. In the discussion, we reflect on the consequences that this has for democratic processes.     

创新能力、所有权优势与中国企业 海外市场进入模式选择

市场进入模式是企业战略研究领域的一大核心主题。本文关注企业微观因素与东道国宏观因素对中国企业外国市场进入模式选择的影响。本文的结论是：创新能力强与国际化经验丰富的中国企业选择绿地新建模式进入外国市场的可能性较大;规模经济突出且所有权优势明显的中国企业选择并购模式的可能性大。规模经济突出和所有权优势明显的中国企业,选择合资模式进入外国市场的可能性大。在选择外国市场进入模式时,中国跨国公司较少考虑文化距离、政府治理水平以及基础设施等约束和激励因素;同时,规模效用和所有权优势而非创新能力与国际化经验始终发挥着重要的影响力。这可能是导致中国跨国公司“大而不强”、国际化竞争优势不足的重要原因。