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We introduce a novel concept of network interactions in which board connections provide access to external spheres of political influence, state ownership, and family control. We posit this form of indirect access via board association enables connected firms to benefit from information privy to external networks while avoiding their resource-based costs of membership. Board network data are assembled for 1290 East Asian firms and linked to hand-collected data on political connections and corporate ownership around the 2008–09 crisis. Companies with board connections to state-owned firms and family business groups had greater crisis-period accounting performance and stock returns. In countries with weak institutional development, board connections to politically connected firms were also beneficial.

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Board networks ;  Corporate ownership ;  Firm performance ;  Political connections

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We propose and test a new explanation for forced CEO turnover, and examine its implications for the impact of firm performance on CEO turnover. Investors may disagree with management on optimal decisions due to heterogeneous prior beliefs. Theory suggests that such disagreement may be persistent and costly to firms; we document that this induces them to sometimes replace CEOs who investors disagree with, controlling for firm performance. A lower level of CEO-investor disagreement serves to partially “protect” CEOs from being fired, thus reducing turnover-performance sensitivity, which we also document. We also show that firms are more likely to hire an external CEO as a successor if disagreement with the departing CEO is higher. Disagreement declines following forced CEO turnover. Using various empirical strategies, we rule out other confounding interpretations of our findings. We conclude that disagreement, independently of firm performance, affects forced CEO turnover.

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CEO turnover ;  Corporate governance ;  Heterogeneous beliefs ;  Investor-management disagreement

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特邀编委 李铭俊 丁远 执行编委 陈杰平 编委会成员 许斌 芮萌 陈世敏 白诗莉 陈少晦　

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Corporate Social Responsibility ;  CSR ;  企业社会责任

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We study the long-run effects of conflict on social attitudes, with World War II in Central and Eastern Europe as our setting. Much of earlier work has relied on self-reported measures of victimization, which are prone to endogenous misreporting. With our own survey-based measure, we replicate established findings linking victimization to political participation, civic engagement, optimism, and trust. Those findings are reversed, however, when tested instead with an objective measure of victimization based on historical reference material. Thus, we urge caution when interpreting survey-based results from this literature as causal.

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Conflict ;  social attitudes ;  World War II

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Is there a correlation between the composition of the board of directors and the quantity and quality of information disclosed to the market, and in particular with respect to the disclosure of privileged, price-sensitive information? Our work examines this question with respect to the Italian Stock Exchange, also considering the role of minority-appointed directors in light of the Italian rules on slate voting that facilitate the election of directors by institutional investors and other minority shareholders. Based on a unique dataset of hand-picked data, we answer the basic research question in the affirmative. Independent directors and minority-appointed directors appear to have a positive impact on the amount and, to some extent, quality of disclosure, in particular if they have specific professional and educational qualifications (‘highly skilled directors’). We also tested if the market reacts to the information that is made public in order to consider the possible objection that outside directors simply require more disclosure of unimportant information. The event studies we conducted, however, indicate abnormal returns in the correspondence on the announcements we considered. The study sheds light on the role of independent and minority-appointed directors suggesting that they foster corporate transparency.

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Board of directors ;  Disclosure ;  Independent directors ;  Minority-appointed directors ;  Corporate governance ;  Inside information

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与美国市场注重现金分红不同，中国资本市场热衷于高送转。高送转往往伴随着股价大幅度上涨与下跌，因而会引起监管部门的关注。2018年上半年，德艺文创和我武生物分别抛出“10股转8股派2.5元”与“10股转8股派4元”的高送转方案，上市公司推出高送转的动机是什么？为何会产生高送转行情？高送转之后两家公司股价走势相背的原因是什么？

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公司市场价值 ;  股价表现 ;  财务业绩 ;  高管减持 ;  高送转

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不论是对于家族企业还是非家族企业,董事会性别多样化的优势作用是非常明显的,不仅表现在降低欺诈的频率方面,还对企业运营及财务系统的优化、供应链、企业品牌建设、社会责任等多方面有正向影响。

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家族企业 ;  女性领导 ;  企业品牌建设

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We perform transaction-level analyses of entrusted loans, one of the largest components of shadow banking in China. Entrusted loans involve firms with privileged access to cheap capital channeling funds to less privileged firms, and the increase when credit is tight. Nonaffiliated loans have much higher interest rates than both affiliated loans and official bank loans, and they largely flow into real estate. The pricing of entrusted loans, especially of nonaffiliated loans, incorporates fundamental and informational risks. Stock market reactions suggest that both affiliated and nonaffiliated loans are fairly compensated investments. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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Credit shortage ;  Entrusted loans ;  Fundamental risk ;  Informational risk ;  Shadow banking

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财富和幸福是什么关系?我们看财经济学家是怎么分析幸福的,在幸福经济学里面,有一个难题叫伊斯特林悖论,一般而言,富人比穷人更加幸福,但是当我们把社会或人从时间序列来比,在不同的社会,随着时间的流逝,当国家的收入提高时,人们并没有随之感到更加幸福.

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富人 ;  幸福经济学 ;  收入 ;  时间序列 ;  社会 ;  穷人 ;  经济学家 ;  财富

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通常来说,人民币国际化有三个条件:第一,有独立的货币发行机制;第二,有独立的汇率形成机制;第三,有独立的全球循环通道。

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人民币国际化 ;  逸民 ;  汇率形成机制 ;  发行机制 ;  货币