企业集团财务集中管理的探索

随着WTO准入的完成,我国大部分企业均面临如何增强自身的核心竞争力的问题,组建企业集团正是向增强自身核心竞争力跨出的关键一步。然而,一个集团的内部结构可以是松散管理,也可以是集权管理,这两种管理的核心区别在于采取何种财务管理模式。而财务集中管理模式,不失为提高集团的整体运行效率及降低集团的总体运营成本的有效方法。本文指出了企业集团实施财务集中管理的必要性,并进行了可行性分析,提出了实现企业集团财务集中管理的几点设想,最后探讨了集团财务集中管理理念为中国企业带来的深远影响。     

Scheduled macroeconomic news announcements and intraday market sentiment

We analyze the effects of scheduled macroeconomic news on intraday and daily market sentiment by comparing sentiment on news announcement dates with that on non-announcement dates. Announcements of macroeconomic indicators change neither intraday nor daily market sentiment. However, the directions of the announced values have asymmetric effects on intraday market sentiment, although they do not affect daily market sentiment. For example, an announcement of an increase in the gross domestic product (GDP) reduces short-term intraday market sentiment, whereas an announcement of a decrease in GDP does not significantly affect intraday market sentiment. We also find that the effect of intraday market sentiment on short-term market returns is greater following announcements of macroeconomic indicators that significantly affect intraday market sentiment.     

CEO optimism,CEO selection,compensation, and corporate investment decision: The case of CEOs who were rehired as CEOs by another firms after turnover

What happens to CEOs after they are let go by their firm? This study is designed to investigate CEOs who are rehired as CEOs by another firms after turnover. CEOs defined as “moderately optimistic” and those who left voluntarily from their departing firms, are younger, have better prior performance, and work in larger firms are found to have a greater likelihood of being rehired as a CEO by another employer. Moreover, new-hire firms with higher growth opportunity and higher R&D expenditures are found to be significantly more willing to hire overconfident CEOs. Furthermore, more-optimistic CEOs are found to receive higher total compensation from their new-hire firms than CEOs who are less optimistic. Finally, overconfident CEOs working in firms with high growth opportunity and higher R&D show a significantly greater tendency toward increasing firm investment.     

How quickly is temporary market inefficiency removed?

I provide evidence on the length of time it takes for arbitrageurs to exploit attractive investment opportunities. A unique data set from the Internet sports betting market allows me to focus on the speed of investor response in an environment that is not affected by the joint hypothesis problem. The market does not instantly converge to an efficient level after mispricing occurs, but the adjustment process is rapid. Arbitrageurs remove many of these opportunities within minutes of them being created and the majority are gone within an hour. Arbitrage opportunities that are more difficult to find last for longer.     

Are UK technology-based small firms still finance constrained?

This paper examines funding issues for UK Technology-based Small Firms (TBSFs). TBSFs are the cry of today and UK government like other countries is trying to increase the mass of TBSFs by various means. However, it is reported that TBSFs face many impediments to their successful development. Finance is believed as the main barrier at the early stages of TBSFs development. This paper is attempting to follow up and report if the funding situation for UK TBSFs has improved. The findings reported in this paper suggest that nearly 80% sample firms were finance constrained at the early stages of business development.     

Diversification Bias and the Law of One Price: An Experiment on Index Mutual Funds

Individual investors select high-fee index mutual funds despite the fact that the future payouts are nearly identical. The authors offer an explanation for this violation of the law of one price based on investor desire to diversify. While diversification in some settings may be beneficial, in the case of assets with identical payouts, fee minimization is the only rational strategy. The evidence confirms that investors diversify by selecting multiple higher fee funds rather than minimizing fees when investing in index mutual funds.     

Underperformance of Actively Managed Portfolios: Some Behavioral Insights

Abstract

Two glaring anomalies in investment management are apparent: (1) after fees, active portfolio managers do worse than market indices, and (2) clients continue to pay for services they don’t receive. The purpose of this paper is to offer explanations of these anomalies from a behavioral perspective. We explore some of the cognitive biases that perpetuate active management and subsequent underperformance, including herding, disposition, and endowment effects, as well as conservatism and status quo biases, overconfidence, and agency problems. Investors’ continued use of active managers despite persistent disappointing returns is attributed to being victims of framing effect, hot-hand fallacy, lack of knowledge as well as intimidation or insecurity, and status quo bias. We propose some ways that portfolio managers and investors could improve their decision making.     

互联网金融发展提升了区域创新效率吗——基于空间杜宾模型的实证分析

基于2011—2018年全国30个省份（西藏地区和港澳台地区因数据缺少剔除）的面板数据,利用随机前沿模型测度中国区域创新效率。在此基础上构建动态空间面板模型对互联网金融发展与我国区域创新效率提升的关系进行实证分析,结果表明互联网金融发展与区域创新效率均存在显著的空间集聚特征。进一步通过中介效应检验发现,互联网金融发展主要通过加速金融发展与人力资本积累等对区域创新效率产生正向影响,该影响也表现出显著的空间溢出效应。     

西部高校财务预警与财务风险防范研究

为适应高校教育大众化要求,高校进入了规模扩张阶段,而政府投入的不足,使高校负债发展成为必然选择,这无形中加大了高校办学的财务风险。本文通过分析西部高校财务风险成因,提出应建立财务预警系统,并采取相应的风险防范措施,以有效控制西部高校财务风险的发生。     

对现代金融监管的反思与借鉴

经济发展是永恒主题,金融监管必须建立在有利于经济发展的基础上;同时,金融监管应适应金融发展的需要,并具有一定的前瞻性。本文介绍了美国和欧洲等国家和地区反思经济危机爆发的原因,提出改革金融监管的框架设想,并对如何构建我国的金融监管制度进行了分析。