Auditor Fees, Market Microstructure, and Firm Transparency

Abstract:  Auditors, as corporate insiders, have access to private information regarding the firm's financial and business opacity that is unavailable to outside investors. We test whether auditors price their knowledge of firm opacity in their audit fees by examining two competing hypotheses. The first states that higher audit fees may reflect the greater risk that the auditor faces in auditing an opaque firm. Under this hypothesis, market based measures of opacity will be positively correlated with higher fees. The second hypothesis states that firms buy reputational capital from their auditor by paying high fees in an attempt to improve the market's perception of the firm's transparency. In this case, higher audit fees are negatively correlated with market based measures of opacity. Our results are consistent with the first hypothesis, that auditors price opacity risk into their fees.     

Reactions of the London Stock Exchange to Company Trading Statement Announcements

Using event study methodology, we examine market reactions to nearly 2,000 trading statements during the period 1995‐2001. We find that profit warnings outnumber upgrades by 50%, and, in line with previous US studies, we find that market reaction to the actual announcements is considerably greater for profit warnings than for upgrades.Sub-samples demonstrate significant market reaction to profit warnings for all sizecontrolled portfolios, but that reaction to the announcements is greatest for small companies.Examination of pre- and post-announcement CARs shows no pre-announcement market anticipation of the announcements.Post-announcement there is a significant positive abnormal return on the day after the announcement of bad news for the small company subsample.Other post-announcement results are small and insignificant.Trading volume results are consistent with this picture. Finally, when the trading statements are examined for news on turnover and margin changes, we find that the market reaction to margin changes is greater than market reaction to turnover changes.     

保障性住房政策演变下住房租赁市场发展研究——以德国、美国为例

完善住房租赁市场一直是保障中低收入者住房需求的重要途径。在保障性住房政策的推动下,世界各国的住房租赁市场都取得了进展,并呈现出一定的规律。营利型租赁与成本型租赁在住房租赁市场的发展过程中总是共同发展,相互制约。只有实施以成本型租赁成熟化为目标的保障性住房租赁政策才能最终为中低收入者服务,反之将导致成本型租赁的边缘化。结合德国、美国的实际经验来探讨住房租赁市场的演变规律,并为我国的保障性住房建设提出建议。     

处理政府与市场关系的义乌实践——基于中国三鼎集团的观察视角

党的十八届三中全会指出:经济体制改革的核心问题是处理好政府和市场的关系。义乌在科学处理好政府和市场的关系方面进行了有益的探索,并一直在演绎这种关系。义乌政府坚定地鼓励、支持、引导非公有制经济发展,不断激发非公有制经济的活力和创造力,使得一大批民营企业得以蓬勃发展,一个个产业集群得以形成拳头。从中国三鼎集团的发展进程角度观察,政府引导和企业发展亦步亦趋,演绎着政府与市场并进共舞关系。义乌的实践是党中央和浙江省委省政府决策的自然结果。     

市场导向对物流企业绩效的影响：以服务创新为中介变量--基于中国物流企业的实证研究

基于国内外相关研究及我国物流企业服务创新实践,构建了顾客导向、竞争者导向对物流服务创新、企业绩效影响的概念模型,提出了基本假设,并以调查获取的152份物流企业数据为样本进行实证分析,最终结果认为：（1）市场导向对企业绩效有正向影响,然而顾客导向较竞争者导向对企业绩效的直接影响更为显著,竞争者导向较顾客导向对企业绩效的间接影响更为显著。（2）在顾客导向及竞争者导向作用于企业绩效的机制中,服务创新发挥了重要的中介作用。（3）物流服务创新对物流企业绩效的提升作用非常显著,服务创新不仅可以实现更高的顾客满意度,更是企业经营绩效及盈利能力提升的重要驱动力。     

未来中国征信：三大数据体系

在不远的将来,我国征信将形成三大数据体系：金融征信体系、行政管理征信体系和商业征信体系。金融征信体系是以金融业主管部门为主导进行建设,行政管理征信体系是以政府及其主要职能部门为主导进行建设,商业征信体系是以行业协会组织及其会员为主导进行建设。金融征信体系、行政管理征信体系是整个征信体系的基础供应商。在它们周围将会存在并逐渐发展出一批专业的、有一定规模的征信中介机构。这些机构以金融征信和行政管理征信开放的信息为基础,进行综合或深加工,制作出满足终端市场需求的专项征信产品和综合征信产品。这三大数据体系在征信体系中应呈现“三足鼎立”的局面,它们之间不是竞争关系,而是相互补充的,每个体系都有自己的侧重点,目的都是为整个社会服务,都是征信体系不可或缺的重要组成部分。我们要正确认识政府在征信体系建设中的功能与作用。从目前情况看,中国征信体系建设的模式应是公共征信与市场征信同时起步,共同发展。当前政府行政征信管理最主要的问题是数据库的互联互通,因此有必要建立国家级和省部级交换平台。政府信用信息应在市场成熟的情况下、在政府信用信息合理分类并实现分类管理的基础上,有条件地、有序地开放。