Market Reaction to Seasoned Offerings in China

This study examines stock market reaction to the announcement of various forms of seasoned issues in China. Our empirical evidence demonstrates that market reactions differ in ways that suggest a difference between management's internal assessment and the market's assessment of the stock price. The market responds unfavourably to the announcement, notably in the case of rights issues and also with regard to open offers. Private placements experience an unfavourable pre‐announcement reaction, which contrasts with the favourable reaction after the event. Convertible bond issues generate positive excess returns consistent with the market's confidence that they can help to align management and shareholders’ interests. Further investigation shows that market reaction is related to factors specific to the issuer and issue by reference to the period immediately surrounding the issue. Specifically, ownership concentration, agency matters connected with equity offerings, investor protection connected with fund allocation and security pricing, and the influence of powerful moneyed interests together provide an instructive insight into market reaction. Institutional inefficiency pertaining to underwriting, auditing, analysts’ forecasts and credit ratings are found to have a weak association with market price, consistent with due public scepticism concerning management and their gatekeepers.     

Value-based network mobilization: A case study of modern environmental networkers

This article addresses current environmental issues by taking a network perspective to examine the initiatives to solve them. Previous investigations of network dynamics and mobilization concern the business context, but we broaden the analysis to the societal networks wherein business is embedded. Our aim is to investigate the early emergence of collective action around a common issue. We analyze the network mobilizers, who promote the issue and its solutions, and the mobilization mechanisms that they employ. We have conducted a case study that examines three initiatives to save the Baltic Sea, all involving business, governmental, and civil society actors. This rich case material leads us to formulate a conceptual model of value-based network mobilization. The mobilizing actors, values, and relationship sediments emerge as important factors in creating issue networks. Our key contribution is to show how the environmental issues bring new types of actors to networks and change the rules of the game. We propose that ‘modern environmental networkers’ should become more important in the future, and that business firms need to develop their skills in playing the new games with these new actors.     

县域经济发展战略的"四点论"

县域经济就是以县域为基本单元进行资源配置的经济,其实质仍然是一种区域经济。虽然每个县发展条件差异很大,在实际工作中也各有高招,县域经济发展思路不断创新,但是从战略高度综合分析,县域经济发展需要抓好稳定、富县、富民、科学发展观四件大事。对此观点,我们称之为县域经济发展战略的“四点论”。     

我国政府采购亟待解决的主要问题及对策

目前我国政府采购中存在的诸多问题,影响了这项工作的推广,应从建立有效的法律机制和有效的集中采购管理体系,以及加强培养政府采购专业人才等方面规范和改进这方面的工作。     

施放气球存在的安全问题及应对策略

根据笔者从事施放气球工作多年的经验,结合工作实际,在分析和研究的基础上,就施放气球过程中出现的安全问题,提出几点建议和应对策略。     

上市公司社会责任审计的理论建构与实践问题探索

随着上市公司履行社会责任情况的信息披露日益受到利益相关者的密切关注,作为履行第三方鉴证责任的上市公司社会责任审计也越来越受到理论界和实务界的重视,因此通过理论建构与实践操作两个层面对上市公司社会责任审计问题进行有关探索十分必要。上市公司社会责任审计的理论框架可以从审计依据、审计原则、审计主体、审计内容、审计目标五个方面来构建;上市公司社会责任审计的实践问题可以从强化上市公司社会责任审计信息披露的监管、构建上市公司社会责任审计的标准、巩固上市公司社会责任审计的依据、探索上市公司社会责任审计的辅助机制和培养上市公司社会责任审计人员几个方面来探索。     

Monetary integration vs. real disintegration: single currency and productivity divergence in the euro area #

Productivity slowdown plays a prominent role in the build-up of the euro area crisis. This phenomenon affected member countries asymmetrically, causing divergence in their productivity trends. Recent research traces this divergence back to monetary integration. After reviewing the arguments that link real “disintegration” of the euro area to its monetary integration, we assess them empirically by modelling the evolution of labour productivity using a panel of sectorial data. The results indicate that monetary unification may actually have fostered divergence in productivity trends, and suggest some economic policy measures that could prevent further divergence.     

Biosimilars in North America

ABSTRACT

The United States (US) is the world leader in the development of biopharmaceutical products. These new drugs, numbering about 200, are now losing patent protection and imitators are entering the market of comparable drugs, called biosimilars. According to a popular belief, these producers of biosimilars (erroneously called copycats) are everywhere, except in the United States. In North America, on both sides of the US border, the increase in the number of biosimilar producers is evident. In addition, although the US federal government tries to erect barriers against the entry of foreign-made biosimilars in the country, many states are lobbying the federal government and allowing the use of biosimilars. And biosimilars represent a very convenient ladder for emergent and industrial countries to learn the enigmatic routines of the pharmaceutical industry. Where this segment of the industry will be located is another matter.     

当前我国征信体系建设需要明确的六个问题

从1993年第一张＂贷款证＂的首创,到＂银行信贷登记咨询系统＂的建立,再到＂全国统一的企业与个人征信系统＂的升级,我国征信体系已经走过18年风雨兼程的建设历程。当前我国征信体系建设正处在从信贷征信向社会征信方向扩展、从服务于金融机构向服务于政府和全社会转变的新的历史时期,如何借助历史赋予的力量更好更快地推动征信事业的更大进步,是摆在新一代征信事业建设人面前的新课题。结合我国征信事业的历史进程,对当前征信体系建设中的现实问题进行分析,并就如何做好下一步的征信工作提出一些看法。     

对现行会计信息系统教学的思考

乔治·索特教授提出的事项法及麦卡锡教授提出的REA会计模型将成为现行会计信息系统的发展方向。本文就现行会计信息系统（AIS）教学存在的问题及运用事项会计思想和方法的必要性和可行性进行了分析,同时主张大力倡导AIS内容的改革,引领高校会计教学向前沿发展,进而推进现行AIS体系结构的彻底变革。