The purpose of this research is to examine the impact of financial distress status and corporate governance structures on the level of voluntary disclosure. We apply six independent variables, including the firm＇s fi...The purpose of this research is to examine the impact of financial distress status and corporate governance structures on the level of voluntary disclosure. We apply six independent variables, including the firm＇s financial distress status and five components of corporate governance structures, such as board independence, audit committee independence, institutional ownership, board meeting frequency, and audit committee meeting frequency. This research is carried out by examining the annual reports of 114 non-financial firms listed at the Indonesian Stock Exchange over the period of 2009-2011. To test hypotheses, we undergo two different analyses, including independent samples t-test and Multiple Linear Regression. We find that： （1） The audit committee independence and the audit committee meeting frequency have significant positive impacts on the level of voluntary disclosure; （2） The financial distress status is negatively related to the level of disclosure at various levels of significance; and （3） All the independent variables are simultaneously related to voluntary disclosure.展开更多
This paper studies the optimal dividend problem in the diffusion model with stochastic return on investments. The insurance company invests its surplus in a financial market. More specially, the authors consider the c...This paper studies the optimal dividend problem in the diffusion model with stochastic return on investments. The insurance company invests its surplus in a financial market. More specially, the authors consider the case of investment in a Black-Scholes market with risky asset such as stock. The classical problem is to find the optimal dividend payment strategy that maximizes the expectation of discounted dividend payment until ruin. Motivated by the idea of Thonhauser and Albrecher （2007）, we take the lifetime of the controlled risk process into account, that is, the value function considers both the expectation of discounted dividend payment and the time value of ruin. The authors conclude that the optimal dividend strategy is a barrier strategy for the unbounded dividend payment case and is of threshold type for the bounded dividend payment case.展开更多
文摘The purpose of this research is to examine the impact of financial distress status and corporate governance structures on the level of voluntary disclosure. We apply six independent variables, including the firm＇s financial distress status and five components of corporate governance structures, such as board independence, audit committee independence, institutional ownership, board meeting frequency, and audit committee meeting frequency. This research is carried out by examining the annual reports of 114 non-financial firms listed at the Indonesian Stock Exchange over the period of 2009-2011. To test hypotheses, we undergo two different analyses, including independent samples t-test and Multiple Linear Regression. We find that： （1） The audit committee independence and the audit committee meeting frequency have significant positive impacts on the level of voluntary disclosure; （2） The financial distress status is negatively related to the level of disclosure at various levels of significance; and （3） All the independent variables are simultaneously related to voluntary disclosure.
基金This work is supported by the National Basic Research Program of China （973 Program） under Grant No. 2007CB814905 and the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 10871102.
文摘This paper studies the optimal dividend problem in the diffusion model with stochastic return on investments. The insurance company invests its surplus in a financial market. More specially, the authors consider the case of investment in a Black-Scholes market with risky asset such as stock. The classical problem is to find the optimal dividend payment strategy that maximizes the expectation of discounted dividend payment until ruin. Motivated by the idea of Thonhauser and Albrecher （2007）, we take the lifetime of the controlled risk process into account, that is, the value function considers both the expectation of discounted dividend payment and the time value of ruin. The authors conclude that the optimal dividend strategy is a barrier strategy for the unbounded dividend payment case and is of threshold type for the bounded dividend payment case.
