The effect of board size on shareholder value: Evidence from bank mergers and acquisitions

This study examines the effect of board size on the economic impact of bank mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the US. Using a hand-collected dataset of 508 M&A between 2012 and 2018, we find that board size is negatively related to acquirer excess returns. In an additional analysis, we show that large boards have positive value implications for banks that combine the CEO and chairman roles as well as for large banks. Our findings indicate that a “one-size-fits-all” approach to board size is not necessarily in the interests of shareholders; instead, a more flexible and proactive formulation is needed.     

An illustration of dynamic network DEA in commercial banking including robustness tests

The main motivation of this article is to illustrate dynamic network data envelopment analysis (DN-DEA) in commercial banking with emphasis on testing robustness. To this end, sixteen foreign banks in China are benchmarked against thirty-two domestic banks for the post-2007 period that follows major reforms. When network and dynamic dimensions are brought together, a more comprehensive analysis of the period 2008–2010 is enabled where divisional and between-period interactions are reflected in efficiency estimates. Weighted, variable returns-to-scale, non-oriented dynamic network slacks-based measure is used within the framework of the intermediation approach to bank behavior. A bank network (i.e., a decision-making unit, DMU) is conceptualized as comprised of two divisions or sub-DMUs, namely, interest-bearing operations and non-interest operations linked by number of referrals. Undesirable outputs from sub-DMUs 1 and 2 (non-performing loans, and proportion of fruitless referrals, respectively) are treated as carry-overs that impact the efficiency of the following periods. Under robustness testing, the illustrative application discusses discrimination by efficiency estimates, dimensionality of the performance model, stability of estimates through re-sampling (leave-one-out method), and sensitivity of results to divisional weights and returns-to-scale assumptions. The results based on Chinese commercial banks are illustrative in nature because of simulated data used on two of the variables.     

转型期国有商业银行的软预算约束

我国国有银行在转型过程中依然保持着软预算约束,并没有建立消除大量不良贷款产生的机制。商业银行软预算约束并不是转型经济面临的特殊现象,但是我国国有商业银行的软预算约束则呈现出自身的特点和特殊的形成机理。软预算约束使银行行为发生扭曲,增加了财政负担,降低了货币政策的调控效率、中央银行的独立性和整个金融体系的稳定性,进而牵制了我国金融市场化改革进程,阻碍金融市场准入和利率的市场化。在政策取向上,国有商业银行改革应使股份制改造与商业化并行,改革的渐进性要求采取逐步引进外资参股、逐步降低信用集中度和逐步实现利率市场化的道路。     

生态视阈下的《怀河河畔》赏析

《怀河河畔》(The Banks of Wye)由著名的“鞋匠诗人”“农民诗人”罗伯特·布卢姆菲尔德撰写,记录了诗人1807年于怀河河畔为期十日的旅程。通过描绘诗化的美景展现出怀河附近的风土人情,以及依怀河而居的农民在圈地运动前后的日常生活变化,表达诗人对资产阶级侵占农民土地这一暴行的批判和对农民阶层的同情。从作品内容出发,结合威廉·华兹华斯的著作《丁登寺》,在生态批评角度下,寻找圈地运动对怀河河畔居民的生活环境等方面的影响。     

城市商业银行的定量内控评价研究

鉴于目前城市商业银行内控评价方法的缺陷,按照综合评价的思路,本文采用层次分析法进行改进.实证表明改进方法有助于综合评价指标系统化和权重确定合理化.     

On the difficulty of making social choices

The difficulty of making social choices seems to take on two forms: one that is related to both preferences and the method used in aggregating them and one which is related to the preferences only. In the former type the difficulty has to do with the discrepancies of outcomes resulting from various preference aggregation methods and the computation of winners in elections. Some approaches and results which take their motivation from the computability theory are discussed. The latter institution-free type of difficulty pertains to solution theory of the voting games. We discuss the relationships between various solution concepts, e.g. uncovered set, Banks set, Copeland winners. Finally rough sets are utilized in an effort to measure the difficulty of making social choices.     

资本市场发展的储蓄分流效应——中国实证研究

资本市场的发展使储蓄分流成为可能,从而对商业银行的储蓄存款业务产生影响。本文首先梳理了储蓄分流的概念、特征及产生原因,并详细描述了我国储蓄分流的发展过程,提出问题：中国商业银行的储蓄分流现象是否由资本市场发展引起的。第二部分通过对中国17家商业银行及资本市场2004-2008年的面板数据做固定效应模型回归,得出实证结论：我国A股市场流通市值的变动显著的负向影响商业银行存款增长率。表明近年来中国资本市场发展是储蓄分流现象的主要原因之一。     

论钱庄在近代中国资本市场上的地位和作用

钱庄是传统中国金融机构的典型和代表之一。中国近代新式机器大工业企业诞生后,钱庄在资本市场上扮演了重要作用:洋务运动时期在资本市场上占据统治地位;清末新式华商银行业出现,直至南京政府银行业成为社会经济生活中最重要的金融力量时,钱庄在资本市场上的地位和作用仍然不可低估。为适应中国近代资本市场的需求,钱庄在经营习惯和制度等方面进行了相当多的改变和调适。钱庄在中国近代资本市场上的地位和作用,使人不得不对传统金融机构在中国近代的作用进行重新评价。     

Does managerial ability influence the quality of financial reporting?

The purpose of this paper is to study the influence of managerial ability on the quality of their financial reporting. Using a large bank sample from nine different countries and for the time period 2004–2010, we expect that bank earnings quality and accounting conservatism increase with more able managers that disclose more accurate earnings and who report higher information about banks’ future earnings and cash flows.The results confirm that managerial abilities play a significant role in the quality of financial reporting in banks, and that capable bank managers are less likely to manage earnings opportunistically. This study is timely and relevant given the recent emphasis on earnings quality of banks over the last few years, and the criticisms of managerial abilities after the financial crisis. The evidence from this study can help standard-setters and regulators to better understand the business practices and accounting behavior of banks in the light of managerial abilities.     

Managing a crisis of confidence in Nigeria's banking and financial industry

An ongoing crisis of confidence in the banking and financial industry in Nigeria's emerging economy calls for using integrated marketing communications (IMC) in optimizing five potentially normative actions as a beachhead in procuring corporate benefits from three variables that predict significantly customers’ favorable impressions of business: satisfaction, trust, relationship commitment. The actions: (a) personalize the stakeholder experience, (b) integrate ethics into the workplace and into corporate communications, (c) participate in training sessions in applied ethics, (d) use brandstanding expansively and integratively, and (e) conduct rigorous outcomes assessment and disseminate its results promptly to stakeholders.