科技型中小企业新三板融资效率测度研究

当前,科技型中小企业已成为我国技术创新的主要载体和经济增长的重要推动力量,但无法从传统融资渠道得到较好的金融支持。2013年末全国中小企业转让系统（NEEQ）正式挂牌营业,为科技型中小企业提供了新的融资渠道。以NEEQ中挂牌的科技型中小企业为研究对象,运用DEA-Malmquist指数方法,选取合理的决策单元和投入产出变量,从静态和动态两个角度对科技型中小企业在新三板市场的融资效率进行测度,进而探索提出提升科技型中小企业新三板市场融资效率的对策和建议,为科技型中小企业选取融资渠道提供有效依据。     

保险合同取得成本会计研究——基于IASB与FASB对保险合同取得成本会计的意见

保险合同取得成本的定义、内容及会计模式对保险公司尤其对经营人寿保险业务的公司来说至关重要,直接关系到保险公司利润衡量和资产负债管理。尽管目前IASB暂时决定取得成本应在发生时费用化,但是关于取得成本会计的讨论一直没有停止。本文在介绍IASB与FASB对保险合同取得成本会计不同意见的基础上,比较分析了保险合同取得成本的定义和会计模式,最后就我国保险合同取得成本会计提出了相应的建议。     

公司内部治理与投资者保护

公司内部治理是公司投资者保护的重要手段,其中股权结构、董事会制度、经营者激励是组成内部治理的重要要素。本文分析了股权结构、董事会制度和经营者激励与投资者保护的关系,研究了三种关系之间的联系,并指出要统筹考虑三种关系,构建竞争型的大股东股权治理结构,培养机构投资者,完善独立董事制度,推广经营者股票期权制度,切实保护投资者利益。     

美国武器装备发展的“委员会+工作组”组织模式

通过解读梳理美国国防部最新的2015年版采办指令、采办指南中关于决策的政策和程序,并以美国在研的重大国防采办项目———第三代全球定位系统为实例,重点考虑关于决策体系的三个方面的问题：谁来决策？谁提供意见？谁提供证据？详细考察美国国防采办项目发展过程中的决策指挥链及决策支持体系,总结美国武器装备发展中决策体系的构成及决策特点。研究发现,美国武器装备发展管理采取了“以里程碑决策官为核心的委员会+工作组”决策体系,该体系主要包括四个要点：一是每个型号项目指定一个里程碑决策官作为此项目的唯一的最终决策人;二是在里程碑决策官领导下组成采办指挥链;三是里程碑决策官在重大里程碑决策点通过委员会的方式听取不同意见;四是里程碑决策官采取集成产品组的工作组方式获得决策支持。并提出对我国的武器装备发展决策的一些启示。     

风险投资、中小企业板与中小企业成长的良性互动

我国中小企业板的设立不仅为中小企业提供了直接融资的渠道,而且为风险投资提供了退出的最佳路径。风险投资、中小企业板和中小企业成长的良性互动促进了市场经济的微观主体与证券市场协调发展。采用三者之间的良性循环来阐述三者之间的互动关系,并且重点介绍了风险投资促进中小企业成长的微观作用机制。     

European firms’ corporate biodiversity disclosures and board gender diversity from 2002 to 2016

We examine how board gender diversity is associated with biodiversity disclosures of a firm, and whether the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the EU biodiversity strategy reinforce this relationship. Using institutional theory and resource dependency theory, our sample comprises 4013 firm-year observations from European corporations covering data from 2002 to 2016. We use panel regressions with country, time and industry dummy variables to analyse the disclosure of biodiversity initiatives (DBI) and logit regressions to explain biodiversity impact assessment (BIA). We find that board gender diversity is positively associated with the DBI and BIA of a firm, and that the GRI framework and the EU biodiversity strategy positively moderate this relationship. Moreover, the GRI framework and the EU strategic plan show positive relationship with the DBI, rather than BIA. Altogether, our evidence suggests that corporate boards with a higher proportion of female directors are more sensitive to the concerns of institutional pressures and respond to those concerns by increasing corporate biodiversity disclosures. Overall, we find that firms tend to comply with the GRI framework and the EU 2020 strategy by undertaking symbolic biodiversity disclosures, rather than providing a comprehensive disclosure of their impacts on biodiversity.     

Who are better monitors? Comparing styles of supervisory and independent directors

This paper compares the unobservable style effect between independent directors and supervisory directors on firm performance. Utilizing the unique Chinese board system with both independent and supervisory directors and a large panel data of 2,240 public firms from 2003 to 2017, this paper finds that both supervisory and independent style is crucial in determining variations of firm performance. The effects of both independent and supervisory director style are less significant when the “type II” agency problem is more severe in a firm. Moreover, outside independent director style is more effective when information costs are low or when firms need more outside resources, while inside supervisor director style is more effective when there are no major internal changes. Finally, the results also suggest that increasing qualified supervisor representations are beneficial to firms.