Can Agents Be Better Off with Pay Caps?

A popular way to discipline the managers of companies or banks that got into trouble during the recent financial crisis has been to impose caps on managers' pay. Using a small extension of the standard principal–agent model, we argue that pay caps might serve the opposite purpose, because the agent might be better off with a pay cap. Specifically, we show that, given a fixed effort level to be implemented, the agent's expected utility can be decreasing in an upper bound for the agent's reward. The effect of pay caps on the general structure of optimal incentive contracts is also characterized. While an improvement of contracting information always helps the principal, it might increase or decrease the marginal cost of imposing pay caps.     

Precision and Manipulation of Non-financial Information: The Curious Case of Environmental Liability

This paper develops a model showing how the environmental liability regime and the precision of the disclosed environmental performance indicator affect managers’ incentives (1) to reduce actual pollution and (2) to manipulate the reported pollution. I assume a company with a separation of ownership and control which can be held liable for environmental damages and distinguish between a negligence regime and strict liability. The results suggest that if there is no manipulation but only a lack of precision of the disclosed environmental performance indicator, a negligence rule induces lower actual pollution levels than strict liability even though a negligence rule is considered to be more lenient. If managers are able to manipulate the disclosed environmental performance indicator, they will do so and actual pollution levels will generally increase. While manipulation makes it easier for shareholders to escape liability under a negligence regime, shareholders suffer from manipulation under strict liability due to higher actual pollution and higher expected damage compensation payments. Therefore, the manipulation level is higher under a negligence regime. My analysis contributes to the environmental performance and disclosure literature by showing that the liability regime is an important determinant affecting environmental reporting and actual pollution decisions.     

提升算法对传统车险索赔频率建模模型的改进——基于我国五省交强险保单数据

广义线性模型作为非寿险定价的经典模型,在非寿险定价中得到了广泛的应用。近年来,以提升算法为代表的机器学习算法在保险领域取得了很好的效果,为保险产品定价提供了一种新的选择。本文将提升算法思想分别融入到回归树模型和广义线性模型(GLM)中去,用得到的新模型对我国车险索赔频率进行预测建模分析,并与传统的回归树模型和GLM进行比较。结果表明,加入提升算法后传统车险索赔频率建模模型的效果得到了很大的改善,并且在不存在过拟合的前提下,随着模型深度和迭代次数的增加,模型的效果也在不断优化。     

Technological knowledge as an essential facility

The economics of regulation has articulated the notions of essential facility and mandated interconnection. Their application to the governance of technological knowledge can be fruitful especially when implemented by the adoption of a compensatory liability rule and the parallel reduction in the exclusivity of patents. Because knowledge is at the same time an output and an input in the production of new knowledge, exclusivity, traditionally associated to patents, is the cause of actual knowledge rationing with major drawbacks in terms of both static and dynamic efficiency. This institutional innovation can improve the governance of technological knowledge and increase both its rates of dissemination and generation.

有限责任公司股东优先购买权立法模式研究

国际上有限责任公司优先购买权的立法有四种模式.从部分国家或地区演变历史看,有限责任公司股东优先购买权的立法演变可分为四种演进路径,并总体上体现了有限责任公司立法的三个共同原则.我国有限责任公司股东优先购买权立法模式是从法定主义模式到排除主义模式的转变,这种转变表明了在我国公司活动日益成为世界经济竞争性活动重要参与主体的背景下,我国公司立法指导思想的转变.     

论触电人身损害赔偿的法律适用

从不同的角度,触电人身损害赔偿案件有不同分类。不同类型的案件,法律适用原则不同。审理触电人身损害赔偿案件应认真梳理案件的法律关系,采用正确的侵权归责原则,公正、合法地追究当事人的责任。     

董事高管责任保险与上市公司关联交易——基于我国上市公司经验数据的检验

董事高管责任保险(D&O保险)是一个市场化的外部治理机制。基于沪深证券交易所2003—2017年上市公司数据,本文实证检验了D&O保险对上市公司关联交易的影响。研究发现,D&O保险显著提升了关联交易总水平、关联销售金额和关联购买金额;根据控股产权性质分组研究发现,D&O保险对非国有控股公司关联交易的正向影响,比对国有控股公司更加显著;D&O保险、关联交易均与公司价值显著正相关,且关联交易发挥中介效应。研究表明,D&O保险通过监督效应提升关联交易,并促使其对公司价值发挥支持效应。研究加深了对D&O保险治理职能的理解,更新了对关联交易经济后果的惯性认知,对促进公司治理治理机制建设和完善现代企业制度具有重要的理论和现实意义。     

从华为诉摩托罗拉案看中国企业知识产权保护的海外战略

自中国加入WTO将近十年时间以来,有关知识产权的案件几乎成为中国企业的"死穴",在域外知识产权案件中被起诉必输的窘境也导致了中国企业为此支付了大量的赔偿金,中国企业主动发起知识产权诉讼的案例更是凤毛麟角。而今年年初发生在美国的华为诉摩托罗拉的案例则是中国企业在国外以保护知识产权为由起诉并最终获得实质性胜诉的第一案,有学者甚至称其为中国企业真正走出去的第一步。以这个案子为出发点,可以总结出中国企业在海外发展过程中应对知识产权诉讼的策略和以知识产权为武器保护自身企业利益的经验。     

"区域"制度下担保国的义务与责任研究

本文分析区域制度下,担保国对于其所承保的在"区域"内的活动所应履行的义务,承担的责任.从而对担保国在"区域"开发中的角色有一个更好的了解.     

Exploring the antecedents of social liabilities in CVC triads—A dynamic social network perspective

This study addresses the emergence of social liabilities by taking a social network perspective on intra- and interorganizational network configurations using the hitherto unexplored example of the corporate venture capital (CVC) triad (CVC unit, corporate business unit, and portfolio company). We investigate social capital and social liability resulting from network formation and transformation and assess their impact on interorganizational knowledge transfer and creation. Examining 12 CVC triads in Germany, we identify new antecedents of social liability, show that social capital can initially facilitate knowledge transfer and creation, and that structural and personal lock-ins may eventually turn that capital into a liability. We make key theoretical contributions to the social network and CVC literature.