Materiality Judgments and Disclosure of Retiree Health Care Costs Under SFAS No. 81

Generally, researchers have difficulty empirically examining materiality judgments because amounts designated as immaterial are not disclosed. However, reporting requirements under SFAS No. 106 provide a unique opportunity to evaluate expense amounts designated immaterial under SFAS No. 81. We use the cumulative effect associated with the adoption of SFAS No. 106 to evaluate prior management materiality judgments. Univariate and logistic regression results suggest that the decision to disclose SFAS No. 81 costs is positively related to our measures of plan materiality. However, our results also suggest that voluntary disclosure factors may have influenced the disclosure decision.     

Pricing of off‐balance sheet debt: how do bond market participants use the footnote disclosures on operating leases and postretirement benefit plans?

In this study, we examine whether the public debt market prices information on off‐balance sheet debt arising from operating leases and postretirement plans. We find that bond‐rating agencies price off‐balance sheet debt arising from operating leases and the coefficient on off‐balance sheet debt measure of operating leases is similar to that of capital leases on the balance sheet. Regarding postretirement benefit plans, we find that bond‐rating agencies do price postretirement benefit obligations that are reported in balance sheet but do not price such obligations disclosed in footnotes. We find similar results when we examine corporate bond yields on new debt issues.     

控股家族涉入能促进企业履行环境责任吗？——基于中国A股上市公司的证据

基于2009—2017年我国沪深A股上市公司样本,比较了家族企业与非家族企业所履行的环境责任差异,研究了控股家族涉入对企业环境责任行为的影响。研究结果发现：家族企业比非家族企业更少地履行环境责任;在家族企业中,所有权比例的增加会显著降低环境责任水平,家族成员出任董事长会象征性地披露更多环境责任信息,家族涉入时间与环境责任之间总体上呈现出倒U型关系。进一步研究表明,家族企业会有选择地履行环境责任以维护家族声誉同时减少经济利益损失,控股家族涉入对环境责任的影响在创业型和非创业型家族企业中有所不同,在强制披露的企业中所有权比例对企业环境责任的消极影响会有所减弱。     

Organizational differences in managerial compensation and benefits in Chinese firms

More than two decades of economic reforms have brought profound changes in human resource management practices in both the state and non-state sectors in China. This study focuses on the impact of organizational factors on compensation and benefits for Chinese managers in state-owned enterprises (SOEs), publicly listed firms (PLFs), and foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs). The empirical investigation of 465 firms located in three major Chinese cities, Shanghai, Nanjing and Guangzhou, provides evidence that organizational factors, such as ownership, firm size, firm age, location and industrial sector, have significant impacts on the variances in Chinese managers' compensation levels, compensation structures and benefits. The trends in the development of compensation and benefits for Chinese managers are also discussed as the Chinese economy moves closer to a more globalized, highly dynamic economy after China's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001.     

深部高应力影响变形巷道加固技术

采用预应力锚索加固支护深部高应力影响变形巷道与螺纹钢等强锚杆支护体系相比较,两帮位移速度和顶底板移近速度均明显降低,顶板离层量远小于离层临界值,说明巷道围岩已基本趋于稳定,支护方式完全可行,经济效益十分明显。     

上市公司资本运营过程及价值分析——基于飞天系的案例

控股股东利用对上市公司的控制权,通过关联交易、资金占用、资产置换等手段掏空上市公司,获取私有收益的案例层出不穷。本文通过对飞天系资本运营过程的描述分析和特点归纳,揭示其对上市公司和中小股东价值的影响,并在此基础上对我国证券市场的健康发展提出建议。     

Balancing Conflicts of Interest when Employing Spouses

Employees can be put in situations where they are required to make decisions on behalf of the organization as part of their job duties. In these situations, organizations desire that employees make these decisions in the organization’s best interest. In an attempt to ensure that decisions are made in the best interest of the organization, some organizations implement anti-nepotism policies and no spouse rules. While the intent is to minimize conflicts of interest among employees, these policies exact costs to organizations. The present paper examines the costs and benefits of these types of policies, as well as the effects of family-friendly benefits, on organizations. The examination is further laid out in terms of four examples of how these policies and rules can be reframed into conflict of interest policies, allowing organizations to fully experience the benefits of increasing the size of the labor pool by being able to consider spouses and family members as potential applicants, while minimizing conflicts of interest. Finally, recommendations concerning the use of focused conflict of interest policies are made.

控制权收益作为国有控股公司高管激励的影响因素研究

本文将控制权收益分解为隐性收益和显性收益。结果表明,显性收益占控制权收益的9％左右,隐性收益仍是我国上市公司高管的首要激励因素。研究还显示,隐性收益和控制权收益与企业规模和经营绩效呈显著的负相关,与第一大股东控股比例呈显著的正相关。而显性收益与企业规模和经营绩效呈显著的正相关,与第一大股东控股比例呈显著的负相关;隐性收益还与公司资产负债率呈显著的负相关。最后,提出将自我隐形激励转变成市场显性激励的政策建议。     

Health benefits of tunneling through the Chinese environmental Kuznets curve (EKC)

In this paper, we first add to what is a growing literature on the existence and nature of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) model for developing countries, by testing for the existence of an EKC for China using a panel data set of city-specific, annual ambient levels of SO₂ pollution. We find some support for both the typical inverted-U-shaped relationship and an N-shaped, cubic configuration. More significantly, we then explore the possibility of China's “tunneling” through the EKC, by using newer, cleaner technologies, and thereby avoiding some of the environmental degradation that had often accompanied economic growth. Specifically, we estimate and economically value the health benefits realizable to Chinese cities from successful efforts to “tunnel” under the EKC over the next generation.     

风险投资中控制权分配及其影响因素的研究

在风险投资中,创业者和风险投资家由于目标不同而存在着利益冲突,这时对风险企业的控制权进行适当分配成为关键.由于风险投资中有关控制权问题的复杂性,国内外对这方面的研究目前还较少,尚处于起步阶段.文章以不完全合同作为理论基础通过建立两期模型分析了影响风险企业中控制权配置的重要因素,从而在统一的不完全合同理论的框架下对风险企业的控制权、现金流量权、声誉机制等各种影响因素展开系统的研究.