我国独立董事的现状及其困境分析

独立董事是我国移植西方国家的一项制度,可以说是我国公司治理中监事会制度“失灵”的产物。目前独立董事在我国上市公司中确实起到一定的作用,但他们基本上处于“边缘化”的困境状态,未能发挥其应有的职能。本文拟从实证和理论角度对此进行深入探讨和分析。     

新股发行主体行为和博弈分析

新股发行市场较小的市场厚度使得理论分析不仅要涉及一般的供给需求分析,还必须深入研究供给和需求的形成过程以及供求双方的相互作用。本文拟从博弈角度研究新股发行过程政府、发行公司、中介机构和投资者的行为特征和多主体博弈过程,分别从信息完全和信息不完全两个角度研究博弈过程和结果,以期对新股发行制度改革提供初步的理论分析基础。     

我国上市公司财务频繁舞弊的症结研究

通过对我国上市公司以增发新股为目的的财务舞弊现象进行分析，我们发现，大股东不仅是舞弊收益的获得者，而且还是舞弊通道的制造者，而大股东的存在又是股票流通性不够的结果。因此，非流通股的存在是我国上市公司财务舞弊的症结所在。     

Do social factors influence investment behavior and performance? Evidence from mutual fund holdings

We study the economic significance of social dimensions in investment decisions by analyzing the holdings of U.S. equity mutual funds over the period 2004–2012. Using these holdings, we measure funds’ exposures to socially sensitive stocks in order to answer two questions. What explains cross-sectional variation in mutual funds’ exposure to controversial companies? Does exposure to controversial stocks drive fund returns? We find that exposures to socially sensitive stocks are weaker for funds that aim to attract socially conscious and institutional investor clientele, and they relate to local political and religious factors. The financial payoff associated with greater “sin” stock exposure is positive and statistically significant, but becomes non-significant with broader definitions of socially sensitive investments. Despite the positive relation between mutual fund return and sin stock exposure, the annualized risk-adjusted return spread between a portfolio of funds with highest sin stock exposure and its lowest-ranked counterpart is statistically not significant. The results suggest that fund managers do not tilt heavily towards controversial stocks because of social considerations and practical constraints.     

Global financial crisis and dependence risk analysis of sector portfolios: a vine copula approach

We use regular vine (r-vine), canonical vine (c-vine) and drawable vine (d-vine) copulas to examine the dependence risk characteristics of three 20-stock portfolios from the retail, manufacturing and gold-mining equity sectors of the Australian market in periods before, during and after the 2008–2009 global financial crisis (GFC). Our results indicate that the retail portfolio is less risky than the manufacturing counterpart in the crisis period, while the gold-mining portfolio is less risky than both the retail and manufacturing sector portfolios. Both the retail and gold stocks display a higher propensity to yield positively skewed returns in the crisis periods, contrary to the manufacturing stocks. The r-vine is found to best capture the multivariate dependence structure of the stocks in the retail and gold-mining portfolios, while the d-vine does it for the manufacturing stock portfolio. These findings could be used to develop dependence risk- and investment risk-adjusted strategies for investment, rebalancing and hedging which more adequately account for the downside risk in various market conditions.     

Can investors of Chinese energy stocks benefit from diversification into commodity futures?

We attempt to evaluate the diversification potential of commodity futures for energy stocks in China. With a variety of copula functions and three risk-based dynamic measures, our results show that even though commodity futures are not helpful in improving the risk-adjusted returns of energy stocks, they can significantly reduce the volatilities and expected-shortfalls of the diversified portfolios. Such diversification benefits are much larger during large market downturns than during normal times. In particular, gold (copper) futures are the most (least) attractive in diversifying risks of energy stocks in most cases. The results also highlight that the non-linear dependence cannot be ignored when estimating the diversification benefits, and more various risk hedging strategies are expected for investors holding energy stocks, especially coal company stocks.     

Is the January effect still alive in the futures markets?

The January effect concerns the fact that small capitalization stocks have historically outperformed large capitalized stocks in January. We analyze evidence as to whether this anomaly can be exploited in the futures markets as a speculative investment or to add risk-adjusted value to portfolio performance. We find that the January effect is still alive in the futures markets on the Value Line minus S&P 500 spread trade, but that the marginal liquidity of the Value Line stock index futures contract has made it very risky to exploit the effect. Historically from 1982/3 to 2004/5, the trade has been profitable. This anomaly was also exploitable through a Russell 2000 minus S&P 500 spread trade from 1993/4 to 2004/5.

后金融危机时代股票超额收益率影响因素的探索

运用判别分析法和决策树模型对上证180的成分股是否可以获得超额收益率及其影响因素进行了分析,并将两种方法的分析结果进行了对比。结果表明：两种方法都可以对上市公司是否可以获得超额收益进行分辨,并且可以找出影响因素。但是从两种模型的结果来看,决策树模型要明显优于判别分析法。从我们的分析样本来看,对企业是否可以获得超额收益率的影响因素主要有：市盈率、市净率、息税折旧摊销前利润/营业总收入等。在实际中,通过这两种方法,投资者可以寻找出那些具有超额收益率的股票进行投资,从而使得自身的投资结果优于大盘。     

信托受托人的谨慎投资义务标准研究

信托受托人的谨慎投资义务标准是现代信托法中的一个重要命题和难点问题。基于交易成本理论、法的公平与效率理念以及诚实信用原则,信托受托人应承担谨慎投资义务。两大法系关于信托受托人的谨慎投资义务标准无本质区别,中国应区分一般受托人与专业受托人,分别规定其谨慎投资义务的标准,并依受托人投资时的情况来判断其是否履行了该义务。