Severance Pay and Corporate Finance: Empirical Evidence from a Panel of Austrian and Italian Firms

This paper examines the empirical link between severance pay and corporate finance. Severance pay is an economic debt of the employer and hence should be taken into account by the market in its assessments of risk. Using a hand-collected dataset of accounting data from Italy and Austria we find there is only a limited relationship between severance pay and market risk indicators. This suggests that arguments that severance pay systems destroy corporate value may need to be reassessed.     

股份制商业银行公司治理绩效的实证分析

作为银行治理研究中的重要内容之一--股份制商业银行公司治理绩效的研究近年来受到较多的关注.本文采用2001-2004年间9家股份制商业银行的23份年报样本为依据,对我国股份制商业银行的治理结构及其与银行绩效的关系进行实证分析.回归分析的结果表明:股权结构对股份制商业银行的绩效产生了负面的影响;董事会规模、董事会会议次数不是影响银行绩效的重要因素;高管人员薪酬对银行绩效有正面的影响.     

Banking System Reform in China: The Challenges to Improving Its Efficiency in Serving the Real Economy

The Chinese banking system reform since the country's accession to the World Trade Organization has yielded remarkable success. The major listed commercial banks have improved their operational performance significantly. However, there are some signs of changes in their financial results recently. The expanding debt of non‐profitable enterprises and local governments raises a question on the achievements of the previous reform. Considering that the competition among banks will become severer with financial liberalization under slower economic growth, the banks and supervisory authorities must continue to make greater efforts towards further reform in order to improve the banks' corporate governance and the risk management system.     

Review on the Study of the Allocation of Corporate Control in Enterprise Theory

With the establishment of a modem corporate system, the separation of ownership and management appears in the company. The rational allocation of corporate control between different behavioral agents has attracted more and more attention. This paper points out that scholars have studied the allocation of corporate control from the angles of the agency cost theory, property rights theory, corporate finance theory, and the theory of corporate governance, which has great value. However, the existing theories also have some flaws on the allocation of corporate control. First, people still have different understandings and views over the meaning of corporate control. Secondly, the existing research theoretically only observes and studies an arrangement of sheer level control, the allocation between final control and real control. This paper argues to build the two-tier allocation of corporate control： The first tier relation is between ultimate control rights and actual control rights, the second tier relation is between indirect control rights and direct control rights which are in actual control rights. This study can explain the resource allocation effects of corporate control, promote the development and improvement of the theory of the firm.     

企业社会责任的价值创造研究——一个三维概念模型的构建

20世纪中期以来,企业社会责任的研究在全球范围内兴起。伴随半个多世纪的争议与讨论,企业应该履行社会责任的观念得到广泛认可,但碍于其所需付出的成本,管理者却普遍缺乏动力。以往的研究虽然致力于在企业社会责任和经济绩效之间建立相关关系,但结论并不一致,其原因主要在于二者之间的作用机理尚未揭示出来。本文认为企业社会责任不仅不是企业成本的沉重负担,反而是构成企业价值创造系统的重要组成部分。文章分析了企业社会责任对当前价值、未来价值和潜在价值的作用机理,提出了一个三维价值创造的概念模型,将该领域研究的零散内容系统化,为企业管理者提供了履行社会责任的理论支撑。     

公司治理的均衡分析

治理公司的目的在于实现治理收益的最大化。笔者结合对内、外治理机制的分析,提供一个关于公司治理收益最大化的均衡模型,并指出实现这一收益最大化的可能途径。通过对国际上有代表性的公司治理模式及其运营效率的比较,以及对日本和德国公司治理最新动向的考察,我们认为,公司外部治理及其机制非常重要。     

The influence of pension funds on corporate governance

Although pension funds have gained importance in the last two decades, their role has not been described in detail by economic models. This article focuses on the scope of these institutional investors when they are not satisfied with a management team of a company in which the pension fund holds a block of shares. Stock holdings by pension funds are largely dispersed. Therefore, any intervention by pension funds in corporate governance requires the formation of a coalition of pension funds. The realization of a coordinated intervention, in turn, is subject to the problems related to the provision of public goods, such as free riding. We find that the stock dispersion and the combined share of pension funds, coordination costs and the attractiveness of the exit option are relevant factors for determining the probability of the success of interventions.     

我国商业银行债权在上市公司治理中的效应

本文对我国银行在上市公司发挥公司治理作用的机制和途径进行了理论和实证研究。研究结果表明,我国银行债权对上市公司的治理力度很弱。银行贷款无论期限长短,治理总体效应都为负,体现为对公司绩效的影响都是显著的负相关关系。在治理机制的途径上,无论是短期贷款还是长期贷款,与公司管理成本费用率之间都是正相关关系,长期贷款与自由现金流量之间显著负相关;这说明银行的长期债权能发挥一定的监督作用,但由于长期贷款占比少,银行债权不能有效约束经理人。公司规模与公司绩效、自由现金流和管理成本费用率之间有显著的合理相关性。