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Valuation adjustment mechanism has been widely applied in acquisitions of listed companies in China today, and is usually agreed upon future financial performance indicators of acquired companies (mostly net income). This paper examines how changes of key contents of VAM agreement affect firms’ ability to meet performance commitments from the

Valuation adjustment mechanism has been widely applied in acquisitions of listed companies in China today, and is usually agreed upon future financial performance indicators of acquired companies (mostly net income). This paper examines how changes of key contents of VAM agreement affect firms’ ability to meet performance commitments from the perspective of incentive effects. Empirical results show that as the performance goals set in VAM agreement becomes higher, the incentive for management to meet performance commitments will initially increase and then decrease, so that the ratio of actual profits to promised profits for target firms will reach peak at some reasonable performance goal and then decrease. Second, as the level of the information asymmetry between buyer and seller turns higher, the incentive effect of performance goals becomes lower. Third, compared with cash-based compensation, stock-based compensation shows significantly higher incentive effects on promisors thus increasing the ability for target firms to achieve performance commitments.
ContributorsWang, Yixin (Author) / Gu, Bin (Thesis advisor) / Yu, Xiaoyun (Thesis advisor) / Jiang, Zhan (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2018
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Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) have been playing a very significant role in the capital market. Many companies regard mergers and acquisitions as an important way for their business expansion and transformation. This paper begins with a review of literature on firm’s motivations of and outcomes in M&A, and followed

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) have been playing a very significant role in the capital market. Many companies regard mergers and acquisitions as an important way for their business expansion and transformation. This paper begins with a review of literature on firm’s motivations of and outcomes in M&A, and followed by a critical examination of three case studies of actual M&A transactions based on the insights provided from the literature review. For each case study, a firm’s motivations and related managerial initiatives for M&A activities were examined, followed by an assessment of the firm’s post M&A performance results. This allows the study to discerns the insights of why and how a firm proceed in its M&A transactions from its strategic intent to its post M&A managerial actions. Collectively, the results show that the key drivers for a firm’s M&A successes rest on a firm’s abilities to manage the M&A activities consistent with its strategic intent (e.g., creating synergies or transformation through diversification) and followed by its post M&A integration efforts in achieving its strategic intent.
ContributorsYang, Zhibo (Author) / Pei, Ker-Wei (Thesis advisor) / Qian, Jun (Thesis advisor) / Shen, Wei (Committee member) / Jiang, Zhan (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2018
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Under the background of the "new normal" of China's economy and the contraction of traditional financial sector, the development of Internet finance provides new financing channels for SMEs and individual financial needs. But with rapid development of the Internet finance, the overall risk also appears gradually as well as the

Under the background of the "new normal" of China's economy and the contraction of traditional financial sector, the development of Internet finance provides new financing channels for SMEs and individual financial needs. But with rapid development of the Internet finance, the overall risk also appears gradually as well as the platform differentiation appears more evidently. China's Internet financial industry enters the stage of standardization development. In order to effectively prevent and resolve Internet financial risks and create a good internet financial environment, we need to identify the risk factors of Internet financial industry. Through reference carding of the existing literature, this paper proposes a research hypothesis that the industrial economic background is negatively related to the operating risk of the Internet financial platform. After descriptive statistical analysis of the current situation of the Internet financial industry in China, this paper collects 600 P2P net-lending platforms data manually, and uses Probit model to test the research hypothesis. Ceteris paribus, the result show that compared with the platform without industrial economic background, the risk probability of the industrial economic background platform will be reduced by 6.5 percentage points, and there is no regional difference in this result. This paper explains the result from two layers which are the relieving information asymmetry and the platform’s reputation mechanism. The study also finds that in addition to the industrial economic background, the P2P platform's registered capital, operation time, whether the platform funds have the corresponding third-party guarantee and the information disclosure of platform executives will significantly reduce business risk probability of the platforms. The above research conclusions also passed the robust test. Finally, this paper makes a case analysis of the two Internet Financial platforms in Suning Finance and Tuniu Finance, which have different industrial economic background and mode of operation. It also summarizes the risk control system.
ContributorsSheng, Yuxin (Author) / Gu, Bin (Thesis advisor) / Zhang, Anmin (Thesis advisor) / Jiang, Zhan (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2018
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This study investigates the performance effects of cross-industry mergers and acquisitions (M&A) using a sample of firms listed in China’s Growth Entrepreses Market (GEM). Compared to firms listed in the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges, firms listed in the GEM are much smaller and tend to derive the majority of

This study investigates the performance effects of cross-industry mergers and acquisitions (M&A) using a sample of firms listed in China’s Growth Entrepreses Market (GEM). Compared to firms listed in the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges, firms listed in the GEM are much smaller and tend to derive the majority of their revenues from a single industry. I first analyze the motives for firms listed in the GEM to engage in M&As and propose a set of factors that may influence their likelihood of M&A activities. Using data on 55 cross-industry M&As between January 1, 2012 and December 31, 2016, I find that investor generally responded positively in short-term, as indicated by the positive accumulated abonormal returns over the first five trading days following the announcements. Meanwhile, I found no evidence that investors benefited from cross-industry M&As in long-term over three years after the event. Further analysis suggests that the short-term effects of cross-industry M&As by GEM listed firms were influenced by the target firm’s market valuation, whether the M&A was paid by cash, the amount of the payment, and the degree of difference between the acquiring firm’s and the target firm’s industries. These findings have important implications for the investors and senior executives of firms listed in the GEM.
ContributorsZhou, Wei (Author) / Shen, Wei (Thesis advisor) / Yu, Xiaoyun (Thesis advisor) / Jiang, Zhan (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2018
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Description我国上市公司股东采取股权质押贷款方式融资非常普遍,股权质押贷款总余额已经高达5.70万亿元,这些贷款背后隐藏着巨大的风险。上市公司大股东采用股权质押贷款的动机可能是对未来乐观行业预期的资金需求,或者是由于股权转让的限制而采取的变相套现转移风险。后者的动机里本身就包含着上市公司大股东对自身股价已经估值过高的判断。本文通过分析上市公司股权质押贷款风险 (即,上市公司当年股价估值程度与上市公司下一年股价崩盘风险之间的关系)会因为股权质押动机的不同而存在差异。只有在套现动机下,当年股价估值程度才会导致下一年显著的股价崩盘风险,而在融资动机下当年股价估值程度与下一年股价崩盘风险之间的关系则呈现负相关。鉴于目前大多数上市公司并不会披露大股东质押所得资金的具体去向,本文通过融资约束程度这个维度对上市公司大股东股权质押的动机进行识别。当上市公司所受融资约束较低时,当年股价高估程度程度越大,下一年股价崩盘风险越大(正相关),上市公司进行股权质押的动机更倾向于高位套现。在融资约束程度高的情况下,上市公司股权质押更倾向于融资,当年股价估值程度越大,下一年上市公司股价崩盘风险越小(负相关)。 在大股东控制权高的情况下,对于所受融资约束程度低的上市公司,独立董事不论是比例高或者低,独立董事制度对大股东的股票质押的行为 (套现动机)无影响。 对于所受融资约束程度高的上市公司,独立董事在占比高时,对通过股票质押来融资的行为有强化作用,可以表现出其治理影响力,在独董占比低的情况下则无法产生作用。
ContributorsChen, Wei (Author) / Pei, Ker-Wei (Thesis advisor) / Jiang, Zhan (Thesis advisor) / Gu, Bin (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2020
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Description中国光伏市场大发展起步于2009年,经过近10年快速发展,已经成为全球第一大光伏发电设备制造和光伏发电应用国家。但随着光伏产业发展,并网消纳、低价竞争、政策波动等问题造成的影响越来越大,光伏电站资产收益的不确定性越来越高,使企业参与光伏产业积极性不断下降,国家制定相关政策也缺乏依据,光伏产业发展进入瓶颈期。

光伏电站资产价值的准确评估越来越难,一方面源于光伏设备价格的调整周期越来越短、光伏补贴的政策调整速度不断加快;另一方面也因为光伏发电受自然条件、设备条件、政策条件等各种因素影响,有较高的不确定性。这些不确定性形成了光伏电站资产,乃至类似相关的新兴产业,投资价值评估的特殊性。同时光伏电站资产又具有初始投资大,项目回收期长等因素,也增加了光伏电站资产评估的复杂性。

当前在光伏电站资产价值评估所使用的方法包括净现值法、回收期法、内部收益率等,在投资决策中也包含实物期权评估等方法。这些方法在光伏电站资产评估中各有特点,本论文将结合实际案例经验,对这些评估方法进行分析,验证评估方法的有效性,并提出提升光伏电站资产估值准确性及投资决策流程的建议 。

对以光伏为代表的新兴战略行业资产投资价值分析研究, 不仅能够为企业提供参与类似产业投资决策提供帮助,对国家制定相应新兴产业支持政策以也有重要借鉴价值。

关键词: 光伏电站估值 光伏电站投资 实物期权 投资决策流程 决策优化方法
ContributorsZhao, Tianyi (Author) / Zhang, Zhongjun (Thesis advisor) / Jiang, Zhan (Thesis advisor) / Wu, Shin-Yi (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2020
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Description近年来,中国内地FOF业务发展迅速,但在业务发展初期的实践中,FOF管理人在遴选基金资产和预测其未来收益等方面遇到诸多困难,传统的FOF组合构建技术往往不理想。本文借鉴海外因子配置相关理论,尝试通过归因分析基金的收益来源,寻找能深度刻画基金经理管理能力的特质因子,创新性地提出了基于权益类基金的特质因子构建FOF组合的新方法。本文选择100家权益类私募基金,通过因子拆解剥离了市场、行业、风格等共同影响因素,遴选出特质因子表现更优的基金经理,而不是仅仅选择过往业绩好的基金经理,并基于特质因子构建一组FOF组合,与此同时,运用传统方法构建基于基金资产的另一组FOF组合,对比两种组合方法的组合绩效,实证结果显示基于特质因子的FOF组合绩效更优。本文进一步运用转移概率矩阵和相关性分析,找到了基于特质因子的FOF组合绩效更优的证据,即特质因子延续性更好和相关性更低。与基于基金资产的FOF组合配置传统方法相比,由于基金的特质因子延续性更好,运用历史数据预测未来收益的确定性相对更好;基金的特质因子之间的相关性低,大幅增强了FOF组合配置的稳定性和分散性。总体来讲,基于特质因子的FOF组合配置方法为FOF管理人提供了一个更量化、更有效、更稳健的组合配置新路径,能有效提升FOF组合配置的绩效。

关键词: FOF、因子投资、组合配置、特质因子
ContributorsLi, Jie (Author) / Zhu, Hongquan (Thesis advisor) / Yan, Hong (Thesis advisor) / Liang, Bing (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2020
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Description2008年金融危机以来,全球一大批企业因现金流短缺而破产或濒临破产,流动性短缺由金融机构蔓延至实体经济,给企业的正常运转造成巨大冲击,致使企业陷入资金紧张、融资困难的境地。在此情况下,持有适量现金对企业而言就显得尤为重要,本文也发现经济总量居世界前二的中美两国,其本土企业的现金持有水平逐年上升。

然而,企业持有现金规模的上升也会导致两大问题的产生:第一,持有较多的现金就意味着必须削减当期投资支出,在未来投资机会存在较大不确定性的情况下,这种持币等待会加大公司的经营风险,并限制公司的成长能力;第二,由于现金是最容易被侵占和攫取的资产,高额现金持有可能成为经理人获取私利或大股东掏空的猎物,从而引发了高昂的代理成本。在军民融合这一国家战略背景下,对于转型阶段的中国军工企业而言,上述两大矛盾在这一轮改革红利中也显得尤为突出。军工企业作为我国国防建设和经济建设的一员大将,是我国国防的重要支撑,承担着为人民军队和民兵提供各种所需武器装备和民品的重要任务。而技术创新是军工企业赖以生存的原动力,失去了技术创新的军工企业将给国家带来无法估量的灾难。但是军工企业的创新活动需要大量的资金支持,中小型军工企业因融资约束问题所导致的研发投入少、创新水平低在当下便显得较为严峻。

基于以上理论与现实背景,本文对我国军工上市企业的融资约束、流动性管理与企业创新等问题进行了深入研究,结果发现:(1)军工企业的融资约束与公司现金持有水平间具有显著的正向关联性,融资约束程度越高,企业持有现金及其等价物越多;(2)样本企业的融资约束问题也抑制了研发投入,融资约束程度越高,研发投入的资金越少;(3)通过调节效应模型,作者检验并证实了样本中企业持有更多的现金及其等价物可有效改善融资约束对研发投入的负向抑制作用。最后,根据本文实证得出的结论,并考虑到中国军工行业的发展现状,提出了相应的政策建议以缓解融资约束对军工企业的负面影响。
ContributorsGu, Wenyang (Author) / Huang, Xiaochuan (Thesis advisor) / Chang, Chun (Thesis advisor) / Jiang, Zhan (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2020
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Description上市公司控制权转移问题一直广受关注,控制权的转移能否改善上市公司绩效,以往的研究由于观察期不同、选取样本不同,结论并不一致。本文从实际控制人变动的角度,选取2010-2018年新实际控制人为民营企业的A股上市公司的样本验证控制权转移对公司绩效的影响。在此基础上进一步分析在实际控制人变动情况下变更前公司的产权性质、变更前公司的经营绩效、核心高管变动对上市公司绩效的影响。研究表明民营企业获取控制权提升了公司绩效,变更前业绩较差公司的改善更明显;实际控制人变更中总经理的变更使公司短期绩效得到明显改善。本文验证了A股市场控制权转移的外部监管机制的作用,为新的实际控制人关于高管变更的决策提供参考,同时为二级市场的投资者提供借鉴。
ContributorsJiang, Gaoming (Author) / Huang, Xiaochuan (Thesis advisor) / Cheng, Shijun (Thesis advisor) / Jiang, Zhan (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2021
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Description中国乳制品(液态奶)行业进入成熟期,伊利、蒙牛等乳企寡头垄断,新乳业作为后进入者,洞察消费者购买乳制品除了获得实物产品外,还期望获得产品相关的附加服务和体验,因此开展了大量体验营销活动。企业独创性地推出了“食育乐园”活动,定期邀请消费者参观公司的牧场、工厂,开展知识互动、现场体验、自助DIY产品、美照话题分享等活动,获得了良好的消费者反馈。本文基于新乳业的体验营销活动,研究体验营销对消费者购买意愿的影响。本文研究研究了三个部分。首先从SOR理论(外部刺激、个体状态、个体反应)出发,以五种体验要素为自变量、以感知价值和品牌信任为中介变量、以购买意愿为因变量建立了体验营销对购买意愿的影响模型。通过问卷法收集了301份消费者数据,用实证分析检验了模型的有效性。结果显示:体验营销五要素中,感官、情感、思考和关联体验对购买意愿产生正影响,行动体验对购买意愿没有显著影响。在除了关联体验外的三个要素对购买意愿的正影响中,感知价值和品牌信任均有中介作用。分性别来看,男性组,感官、思考和关联体验对购买意愿有显著正影响;女性组,情感和关联体验对购买意愿有显著正影响。关联体验对购买意愿的正影响中,女性大于男性。 然后,本文采取事件法,分析比较消费者在参加体验营销活动前后购买意愿的变化,验证了体验营销对购买意愿的提升作用,整体提升7.1%。分人群来看:体验营销对购买意愿提升较大的群体为:女性; 40岁以上;家庭饮奶次数在3-7次/周;近期购买过竞品的消费者。据此,本文认为该类消费者可以作为未来体验营销活动的主力群体。 最后,本文对比分析了活动前后消费者的体验变量,并以此对新乳业的体验营销活动进行评价和优化。活动前后,关联体验提升幅度最大(11.4%),行动体验虽然提升幅度排第二(9.2%),但理论研究表明行动体验的提升并不能对购买意愿产生显著正影响。因此在未来活动设计中,重视与关联体验有关的设计、适度简化行动体验、强化感官体验、情感体验等更加直观的体验有利于提升活动效果。
ContributorsZhu, Chuan (Author) / Chen, Pei-Yu (Thesis advisor) / Jiang, Zhan (Thesis advisor) / Wang, Yongxiang (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2021