The Effect of Media Coverage on the Pricing of Seasoned Equity Offerings

This paper examines the role of media coverage and investor attention on the outcomes of seasoned equity offerings (SEOs). I use an archive of Thomson Reuters news articles to proxy for firm visibility and investor attention. I find that the volumes of news articles prior to the offerings are positively associated with the offer price discounts of SEOs. Furthermore, the volumes of news articles are negatively associated with the cumulative abnormal returns three days around the SEOs. I conclude that the costs of equity increase with media coverage prior to SEOs. Overall, the evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that media coverage affects investors' information processing in SEOs. Copyright © 2018 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A toolbox for garden governance

A substantial fraction of the open space in (peri-) urban and rural areas is covered by domestic gardens which support the delivery of multiple ecosystem services. Although individually they may look insignificant, the aggregation of domestic gardens and of gardening actions can be significant. Referring to ‘the tyranny of small decisions’, we launch the concept of a ‘resource by small gardening actions’: the positive cumulative outcome of individual garden owners adopting pro-environmental gardening practices. Using qualitative research, we gained a thorough insight into the barriers and levers related to the development of domestic gardens as a ‘resource by small gardening actions’. By combining the data from expert interviews with a design workshop addressing garden and landscape architects, and focus groups with private garden owners, we identified eight barriers and nine levers. These levers are part of a ‘mix and match’ toolbox, allowing the development of tailor-made strategies for garden governance. These insights increase the understanding on if and how private actors and their properties could become part of policy plans to support ecosystem services. This adds to the global understanding of the strategic value of daily-life landscapes that exist all over the world.     

Intercorporate Ownership,Taxes, and Corporate Payout Choices*

This paper examines whether corporate payout choices (dividends or share repurchases) are associated with intercorporate ownership in a firm. Using the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (SEDAR) and the Inter‐Corporate Ownership (ICO) database from Statistics Canada, I find that intercorporate ownership is positively associated with a firm’s propensity to pay dividends and negatively associated with a firm’s propensity to repurchase shares. The findings are robust to the endogeneity of intercorporate ownership and the inclusion of various control variables such as firm size, risk, liquidity, growth, and profitability.     

Innovation and its diffusion: process,actors and actions

Seeking to understand factors affecting innovation diffusion, research has increasingly focused on process, actors and activities. After two decades of research, however, a systematisation of these three sets of studies is still lacking. Thus, this paper contributes to the existing literature providing a comprehensive framework of factors affecting innovation diffusion between organisations. Specifically it evidences phases of innovation diffusion process, clarifies the role of innovator, adopters and intermediaries and evidences actions that policy-makers can implement to support it.     

财政压力、地方政府行为与环境污染

地方政府是生态环境治理的关键主体,财政压力以地方政府行为作为传导变量,对环境污染及其治理效果有深刻影响。实证检验地方政府行为的促污和治污效应对财政压力冲击的响应。结果表明：激励生产型地方政府行为促进污染增加,在财政压力下促进污染增加效应的激化,即压力越大越污染。环境治理型地方政府行为中的环境保护支出对污染治理有效,财政压力对其治污效应有提升作用;排污费征收不治污、反促污,财政高压使其促污效应强化。在财政增支减收、压力不断攀升的背景下,可从治理体制性财政压力诱因、强化对地方政府行为监督和约束以及优化治理工具提升环境治理绩效等方面来平抑财政压力通过地方政府行为引发的环境污染加剧。     

青蒿素的研究思路与启示

青蒿素是我国科研工作者首次从青蒿中分离鉴定得出的具有高效低毒的抗疟特效药,其产生发展及在治疗疟疾方面的出色表现对我国中药事业具有深远的影响,本文对青蒿素的研究思路进行了综述,研究探讨了青蒿素未来发展方向及新药开发的启示。     

浅谈容器焊接变形的预防措施

在容器焊接完毕后,往往因存在焊接残余应力而导致焊件变形。针对出现的收缩变形、角变形、弯曲变形、扭曲变形和波浪变形,本文阐述了其产生的原因,并提出了相应的预防和矫正措施。     

政府采购制度:强化财政支出管理的必由之路

长期以来,我国财政资金使用效益不高,开支浪费大,监督机制不健全,并由此产生腐败现象,阻碍了经济的发展。建立政府采购制度是解决上述问题的重要途径,也是强化我国财政支出管理的必由之路     

政府行为对风险投资回报率影响研究

国际上西方主流观点认为,风险投资最好是由民间资本为主,政府不应该操纵风险投资,而中国现在的风险投资大多是由政府主导的资金对政府感兴趣的公司进行投资,风投公司大多是政府主导建立的,民营上市公司参与风投的比例较低,民间资本创立的风投机构更是少之又少。而通过对四类风险投资公司的分析,初步探究出中国政府应该:第一,转变政府在风险投资中的干预职能和行为方式,放宽进入门槛,建成风险投资的多元性投资主体。第二,要利用其所掌握的管理权资源和政策制度引导,通过适当的政府行为选择指引,将大部分精力放在风险投资需要的外部环境建设、制度的制定与完善上。第三,提升政府在风险投资发展中的决策水平。政府应根据风险投资运行的本质规律,建立科学的经济决策程序和决策体系。     

Considerations on “Research on non-market actions: A commentary essay”

This commentary is in response to the commentary, “Research on Non-Market Actions: A Commentary Essay” [Wang, C-J. Research on Non-Market Actions: A Commentary Essay. J Bus Res (2008)] on the paper, “First come, first served: How market and non-market actions influence pioneer market share” [Usero B, Fernández Z, First come, first served: How market and non-market actions influence pioneer market share. J Bus Res (2008), doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2008.07.005]. The commentary responds directly to Wang's [Wang, C-J. Research on Non-Market Actions: A Commentary Essay. J Bus Res (2008)] comments and proposes further lines of research that integrate the competitive dynamic approach with studies of non-market actions.