境外机构投资者持股周期与公司治理绩效关系的实证研究

选取2003-2015年我国沪深A股上市公司中有境外机构投资者(QFII)持股的公司作为研究样本,将QFII持股周期划分为短期、中期和长期三类,通过理论分析和实证分析研究QFII不同持股周期对上市公司治理绩效的影响,研究结果表明,QFII短期持股时,奉行财务投资理念,通过买卖价差获取投资收益,不会对公司治理绩效产生影响;QFII中期持股时,会对公司治理绩效产生影响,但影响作用较微弱;QFII长期持股时,主要奉行价值投资理念,通过积极参与公司治理影响公司治理绩效,获得高额投资收益。本文的研究结论对我国境内机构投资者和上市公司具有一定的借鉴作用,同时可以为我国引入QFII提供政策建议。     

Control and voting power in corporate networks: Concepts and computational aspects

This paper proposes to rely on power indices to measure the amount of control held by individual shareholders in corporate networks. The value of the indices is determined by a complex voting game viewed as the composition of interlocked weighted majority games; the compound game reflects the structure of shareholdings. The paper describes an integrated algorithmic approach which allows to deal efficiently with the complexity of computing power indices in shareholding networks, irrespective of their size or structure. In particular, the approach explicitly accounts for the presence of float and of cyclic shareholding relationships. It has been successfully applied to the analysis of real-world financial networks.     

信息披露质量影响公司风险承担:治理效应抑或声誉效应？

基于信息披露理论和公司治理理论,本文实证检验了信息披露质量对公司风险承担的影响。实证结果发现:较高的信息披露质量有助于提高公司风险承担水平,从而验证了信息披露的“治理效应”。进一步发现,管理层持股激励能够影响上市公司的信息披露行为,并提高公司风险承担水平,说明管理层持股能够加强信息披露质量与公司风险承担之间的正向关系,且这种影响关系在高管理层持股组中更显著。研究结论不仅丰富和拓展了信息披露和公司风险承担的相关研究,而且对管理层激励契约的设计和公司风险认知具有重要的启示作用和现实意义。     

外部大股东退出威胁与企业投资效率:理论模型与实证检验

外部大股东在公司治理中的作用一直是学术界和实务界重点关注的话题。本文以退出威胁作为切入点,考察外部大股东影响企业投资决策的机理。实证结果表明:外部大股东退出威胁可以有效地提高企业的投资效率,退出威胁每上升一个标准差将提高3.941%的投资效率;外部大股东退出威胁的治理效应主要是依赖于管理层对于自身持股财富和股权质押爆仓风险的担忧;长期型外部大股东退出威胁的治理作用更为显著,而短期型外部大股东退出威胁的作用不显著。     

Measurement of a linkage among environmental,operational, and financial performance in Japanese manufacturing firms: A use of Data Envelopment Analysis with strong complementary slackness condition

This study investigates a linkage among environmental, operational and financial performance in Japanese manufacturing industry. All manufacturing firms examined in this study are listed in Tokyo stock exchange market. We use DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) as an evaluation methodology. This study finds that large firms have managerial capabilities to improve their operational and environmental performance. The improvement leads to the enhancement of their financial performance. However, we cannot find such a business linkage in small and medium-sized firms. They improve their operational performance and then direct themselves toward the improvement of their environmental performance. Their environmental performance is, not the first priority, the second priority for the small and medium-sized firms even though Japanese government is currently making a policy pressure on all manufacturing firms to pay attention to various environmental issues related to the global warming and climate change. The environmental protection policy is effective on only large Japanese manufacturing firms that have technological and financial capabilities for environmental protection.     

DEA–DA for bankruptcy-based performance assessment: Misclassification analysis of Japanese construction industry

This study describes a practical use of Data Envelopment Analysis–Discriminant Analysis (DEA–DA) for bankruptcy-based performance assessment. DEA–DA is useful for classifying non-default and default firms based upon their financial performance. However, when we apply DEA–DA to a data set on corporate bankruptcy, we usually face three problems. First, there is a sample imbalance problem because the number of default firms is often limited. In contrast, we can easily obtain a large number of non-default firms. Second, there is a computational problem to deal with a large data set. We need to consider a computational strategy to reduce the dimension of a large data set. Finally, we need to consider data alignment because the location of default firms may exist within that of non-default firms. This study discusses a simultaneous occurrence of the three problems from the perspective of Japanese industrial policy on construction business. To handle the three problems, this study combines DEA–DA with principal component analysis to reduce the computational burden and then alters DEA–DA weights to address both the sample imbalance problem and the location problem. This study also discusses a combined use between DEA–DA and rank sum tests to examine statistically hypotheses related to bankruptcy assessment. As an important application, we apply the proposed approach to the Japanese construction industry and discuss why many Japanese construction firms are misclassified.     

股权结构对信息技术产业上市公司绩效的影响研究

选取中国2012-2016年A股信息技术产业不同股权性质上市公司为样本,采用Pearson相关性检验和SPSS多元回归分析方法,探讨股权结构对公司绩效的影响,并提出对策建议.研究发现:信息技术类上市公司的两权分离率对股权结构和公司绩效的关系具有调节效应;股权制衡度与信息技术类国有企业绩效有显著正相关关系;信息技术类民营企业两权不分离时,股权集中度与绩效有正相关关系,两权分离时的股权制衡度与绩效有负相关关系.     

An optimization approach to resolving circular shareholding in large business groups

Circular shareholding refers to a situation where a series of capital contributions made by companies in a family business group establish a chain of shareholdings. For example, a circular shareholding is formed when company A owns stock in company B, company B owns stock in company C, and company C owns stock in company A. In Korea, the practice of circular shareholding in large family-controlled business groups may give the principal families higher control over member firms and more opportunities to pursue their own interest at the expense of other shareholders. For this reason, the government of Korea has encouraged large conglomerates to gradually eliminate their circular shareholdings. However, there has been no research as to which shareholdings out of the complicated ownership structure should be cleared in order to resolve the issue of circular shareholding. In this paper, we propose optimization models to address the problem. Of the proposed integer programming models that can eliminate circular shareholding, one maximizes the sum of cash-flow rights while another maximizes the sum of voting rights. The proposed models have been applied to Korean family-controlled business groups, and the results are included herein. To the best knowledge of the authors, this research is the first study to apply optimization theory to the problem of resolving circular shareholding.     

Methodological comparison between DEA (data envelopment analysis) and DEA–DA (discriminant analysis) from the perspective of bankruptcy assessment

This study compares DEA (data envelopment analysis) with DEA–DA (discriminant analysis) in terms of bankruptcy assessment. Recently, many DEA researchers propose a use of DEA as a quick-and-easy tool to assess corporate bankruptcy. Meanwhile, other DEA researchers discuss a use of DEA–DA for bankruptcy-based financial analysis. The two groups are very different from the conventional use of DEA because we have long applied DEA to the measurement of operational performance, or productivity analysis. The two research groups open up a new application area (bankruptcy-based financial assessment) for DEA. This study discusses methodological strengths and weaknesses of DEA and DEA–DA from the perspective of corporate failure. The proposed comparative analysis has the three main criteria: (a) how to handle negative data in financial variables, (b) how to handle data imbalance between default and non-default firms, and (c) how to identify a failure process over time. This study finds that DEA is a managerial tool for the initial assessment of corporate failure and DEA is useful for busy corporate leaders and financial managers. In contrast, DEA–DA is useful for researchers and individuals who are interested in the detailed assessment of bankruptcy and its failure process in a time horizon.     

Debt and entrenchment: Evidence from Thailand and Indonesia

This paper examines the relation between debt and corporate governance in emerging market economies. We use firm-level panel data of listed companies from Thailand and Indonesia to analyze the firm’s corporate financing behaviors in connection with its corporate governance arrangements. Our results show that the debt structure is linked to the corporate governance. We find that weaker corporate governance firms, in particular measured by the entrenchment effects, tend to have a higher debt level. The evidence is relatively stronger during the crisis period. Our results also shed lights on the importance of the country-specific institutional settings that would affect the empirical results.