The impacts of Hong Kong’s Currency Board reforms on the interbank market

Among the economies with a Currency Board System (CBS), Hong Kong (HK) is probably the one with the largest and most developed financial sector, as well as the highest capital mobility. Hence, studying HK’s CBS is not only crucial to HK, but also important for the understanding of the modern CBS. This paper outlines the major monetary reforms in HK since the late 1980s. The impacts of these reforms and the 1997–1998 Asian Financial Crisis are then examined empirically. We focus on the differentials between the US and HK interbank interest rates. We assume the conditional-mean equation follows an autoregressive process and the conditional-variance equation follows a generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity process. This model captures the time-varying level and volatility of the differential. In light of the empirical results we provide an assessment of the reforms in HK.     

Managerial Equity Ownership and the Demand for Outside Directors

This paper examines the linkage between the use of outside directors and managerial ownership. We conjecture there are two linkages: the standard incentive‐alignment demand for monitoring when managers own little stock and an entrenchment‐amelioration demand when managerial stock ownership is high. As a consequence, we predict the association between managerial ownership and board composition will be nonlinear (U‐shaped if the entrenchment effect is sufficiently pronounced). Using UK data, we find that both quadratic and logarithmic models outperform the simple linear relationship assumed in prior research and that the substitution between managerial ownership and board composition is stronger than hitherto supposed.     

建立我国多层次资本市场体系的若干关键问题

我国资本市场发展的目标模式是建立多层次资本市场体系。为了实现这一目标,要进一步规范和发展主板市场,坚持市场化的改革取向,积极稳妥地解决主板市场上的结构性非均衡;在搞好中小企业板的基础上分步骤推进创业板建设;完善股份代办市场,实施功能转型,使之转变为真正的三板市场。     

独立董事的相对独立性与发挥作用的途径

本文的实证结果表明独立董事报酬无论与内部董事,还是与管理高层的整体报酬之间都呈现显著的正相关关系,这说明独立董事具有相对独立性是不以人的意志为转移的客观事实。在此基础上,研究了相对独立性对监督有效性带来的影响。结果表明,尽管独立董事只具有相对的独立性,但只要能挖掘出符合相对独立性要求的机制来激励独立董事做更多实实在在的工作,具有高认知能力的独立董事依然能在上市公司的治理中有效地发挥作用。     

发展资本市场构建嘉兴板块促进地区经济快速发展

资本市场作为现代经济核心的重要组成部分，反映了社会化生产规律的先进经营方式和组织形式，代表着社会主义市场经济先进生产力发展要求，对推动国有企业改革，完善社会保障体系，调整经济结构，筹集社会资金，促进地区经济发展具有极为重要的作用。该文在分析了资本市场对促进嘉兴经济的作用和嘉兴市上市公司的现状基础上，就如何做强做大“嘉兴板块”进行了探讨。     

从内部控制看我国公司董事会建设

董事会建设一直是我国公司治理的核心，该文则将董事会置于公司内部控制环境中，从控制角度探讨董事会的重要性、当前我国公司董事会存在的主要问题及其解决思路。     

一种镀锌板生产线电气传动控制系统

介绍了镀锌板生产线的工艺流程及其对电气传动的要求，采用PLC对镀锌板生产线的张力和带速进行协调控制，对电气传动控制系统的活套带重补偿和控制算法作了论述。本系统在实际使用中可靠性高，经济效益好，是一种适用的镀锌板生产线电气传动控制系统。     

Top executive gender diversity and financial reporting quality

We examine whether gender diversity of chief executive and chief financial officers (CEOs and CFOs) is associated with financial reporting quality. The CEOs and CFOs of publicly traded companies are both required to certify the appropriateness of their financial statements and annual disclosures. We argue that gender diverse dyads (groups) of executives can bring different perspectives and professional skepticism to financial reporting. Using a sample of different CEO/CFO gender dyads during 2006–2019, we postulate and find evidence of higher accruals quality among firms led by gender-diverse dyads compared to accruals quality reported by firms led by all-male CEO/CFO pairs. Additional analyses reveal that the auditors of firms with gender-diverse executive dyads issue audit reports later, charge higher audit fees, and are more likely to be one of the Big 4 firms. These findings support the view that top executive gender diversity enhances financial reporting quality, which has important implications for corporate governance mechanisms.     

论我国上市公司董事会治理结构存在的问题与对策

我国上市公司董事会治理在董事会机构、董事会会议、独立董事、董事会外部制约机制等方面都存在一定问题.解决的对策是:增强董事会的独立性,改变大股东完全控制董事会的局面;加强独立董事制度建设,营造独立董事充分行权的环境;加强对董事的违规处罚力度,强化董事的诚信意识;建立科学合理的董事会考评机制.对于董事会的考核可以从两方面去进行:一方面是对董事会的整体考评,另一方面是对董事个人的考核.我国可以借鉴美国的考核评估方法,由非投资相关者专门针对董事会进行考核评估.     

Toward a Phylogenetic Reconstruction of Organizational Life

Synopsis Classification is an important activity that facilitates theory development in many academic disciplines. Scholars in fields such as organizational science, management science and economics and have long recognized that classification offers an approach for ordering and understanding the diversity of organizational taxa (groups of one or more similar organizational entities). However, even the most prominent organizational classifications have limited utility, as they tend to be shaped by a specific research bias, inadequate units of analysis and a standard neoclassical economic view that does not naturally accommodate the disequilibrium dynamics of modern competition. The result is a relatively large number of individual and unconnected organizational classifications, which tend to ignore the processes of change responsible for organizational diversity. Collectively they fail to provide any sort of universal system for ordering, compiling and presenting knowledge on organizational diversity. This paper has two purposes. First, it reviews the general status of the major theoretical approaches to biological and organizational classification and compares the methods and resulting classifications derived from each approach. Definitions of key terms and a discussion on the three principal schools of biological classification (evolutionary systematics, phenetics and cladistics) are included in this review. Second, this paper aims to encourage critical thinking and debate about the use of the cladistic classification approach for inferring and representing the historical relationships underpinning organizational diversity. This involves examining the feasibility of applying the logic of common ancestry to populations of organizations. Consequently, this paper is exploratory and preparatory in style, with illustrations and assertions concerning the study and classification of organizational diversity.