CEOs’ experience of the Great Chinese Famine and accounting conservatism

This study investigates how a CEO's early-life experience of the Great Chinese Famine affects corporate accounting conservatism. We find that companies whose CEOs had experienced famines in early life adopted more conservative accounting policies. This famine experience effect is more pronounced in high uncertainty environments proxied by non-SOEs, politician turnovers and the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Additional tests indicate that CEOs with famine experience tend to support conservative accounting practices for contingencies and accelerate the recognition of asset impairments in negative events. Overall, consistent with imprinting theory, our results highlight the role of early-life traumatic experiences in shaping CEOs’ risk preferences and financial reporting policies.     

Corporate governance and the insolvency risk of financial institutions

We investigate whether shareholder-friendliness of corporate governance mechanisms is related to the insolvency risk of financial institutions. Using a large sample of U.S. financial institutions over the period 2005–2010, we find that corporate governance is positively related to the insolvency risk of financial institutions as proxied by Merton’s distance to default measure and credit default swap (CDS) spread. We also find that “stronger” corporate governance increases insolvency risk relatively more for larger financial institutions and during the period of the financial crisis. Lastly, our results suggest that shareholder-friendliness of corporate governance mechanisms is viewed unfavorably in the bond market.     

Status,Risk-Taking and Intertemporal Substitution in an Endogenous Growth Model

This paper examines intertemporal risk-taking in a stochastically growing economy with externalities in human capital accumulation where agents have preferences for social status. In order to isolate the effects of status concerns on long-run expected growth, the analysis is embedded in a non-expected utility setting, which disentangles the effects from risk aversion and intertemporal substitution. We examine the interaction between status desire and risk, risk aversion and intertemporal substitution. The externalities generated by the status game are able to correct the allocative distortions from the knowledge spillovers.Acknowledgement The author would like to thank an anonymous referee for his valuable comments.     

创业决策中创业者风险行为的影响因素——国外研究框架综述

包括西蒙和卡尼曼在内的众多经济学家,都对创业者在面临及做出创业决策时的风险行为进行过探讨,而在国内这还是一个鲜有涉及的议题.目前的研究关注于探讨这一风险行为的影响因素,同时这也构成了对该主题的一般研究框架.而从国外研究文献综述来看,其影响因素主要包括风险倾向、风险感知、创业者禀赋、预期回报以及环境因素这五大要素.     

客户关系对企业风险承担的影响

针对当前客户关系对企业风险承担影响机理的研究不足,用2009-2018 年沪深A 股上市公司数据,从客户异质性特征的视角研究客户关系对风险承担的影响。研究发现：客户集中度与客户稳定度均显著正向影响企业的风险承担;进一步考虑客户异质性特征时,发现：当客户中国有企业和上市公司的比例越高,以及客户处于市场化进程较高的地区时,客户关系对企业风险承担的正影响越显著。     

绿色金融对企业绿色创新绩效的影响——基于风险承担视角

绿色创新是助力经济发展绿色转型的重要战略工具, 绿色金融如何作用于企业绿色创新是学术界备受关注的问题。以2011—2022年全部A股上市公司为研究样本,实证检验地区绿色金融的发展对企业绿色创新绩效的影响,并从风险承担视角出发验证作用机制。研究发现,地区绿色金融的发展能显著提升企业绿色创新绩效,作用机制在于地区绿色金融的发展可以通过提高企业风险承担水平,增强企业创新动机和意愿,进而促进企业开展绿色创新。异质性分析表明,绿色金融对企业绿色创新绩效的正向影响在国有企业和东部地区企业中更为显著。     

融资约束视角下终极控股股东对企业风险承担的影响

本文利用我国2006～2014年沪深A股非金融类上市企业数据,研究终极控股股东对企业风险承 担的影响以及融资约束在该影响中的作用。结果表明,控股股东现金流权对企业风险承担的 影响呈U型结构,随现金流权的增大,现金流权对企业风险承担的影响由正转负。就我国市 场而言,控制权与现金流权的分离度对企业风险承担具有负向影响,这种负向影响程度随融 资约束的提高而减弱。     

绿色金融之于商业银行风险承担是“双刃剑”吗——基于中国银行业的准自然实验研究

基于中国股份制银行、城市商业银行和农村商业银行2005~2017年面板数据，使用双重差分模型实证考察绿色信贷对商业银行风险承担的影响。研究结果表明：在短期内，商业银行开展绿色信贷业务会增加其破产概率，但是，基于动态性检验可发现，绿色信贷对商业银行风险承担具有滞后的正效应；绿色信贷对商业银行风险承担的影响具有明显的异质性；政治级别越高的商业银行开展绿色信贷对其风险承担的影响越大；相对于非上市银行，上市银行开展绿色信贷对其风险承担的影响更大。此外，没有证据表明农村商业银行与城市商业银行开展绿色信贷对其风险承担有显著的差异。     

Creditor rights and the market power-stability relationship in banking

I use the staggered passage of creditor rights reforms in 13 countries to examine how changes in creditor rights affect (a) bank stability and (b) the bank market power-stability relationship. (a) There is statistically weak evidence that stronger creditor rights enhance bank stability; the result is not robust across specifications. (b) Market power positively affects stability. However, there is asymmetry in the effect of market power on stability, depending on whether there is an increase or a decrease in creditor rights. The market power-stability relationship is stronger when a country weakens its creditor rights vis-á-vis when it strengthens its creditor rights.     

Underlying risk preferences and analyst risk-taking behavior

We investigate the relationship between underlying risk preferences on analysts’ work-related decisions. Specifically, we examine whether facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR), an innate personal characteristic that has been linked to financial risk tolerance, is associated with analysts’ stock coverage decisions and the boldness of their earnings forecasts and stock recommendations. We find that high-fWHR analysts cover firms with lower earnings predictability, and issue bolder forecasts and recommendations. Our findings shed new light on the black box of analyst decision making, assisting investment practitioners in evaluating the information content produced by different types of analysts and understanding the observed dispersion in analyst forecasts.