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The authors study the impact of government-led incentive systems by examining a staggered reform in the Chinese state-owned enterprise (SOE) performance evaluation policy. To improve capital allocative efficiency, in 2010, regulators switched from using return on equity (ROE) to economic value added (EVA) when evaluating SOE performance. This EVA policy adopts a one-size-fits-all approach by stipulating a fixed cost of capital for virtually all SOEs, ignoring the potential heterogeneity of firm-specific costs of capital. The authors show that SOEs did respond to the performance evaluation reform by altering their investment decisions, more so when the actual borrowing rate was further away from the stipulated cost of capital. The authors paper provides causal evidence that incentive schemes affect real investment and sheds new light on challenges faced by economic reforms in China.

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金融市场发展与经济增长息息相关。中国资本市场在规模、监管、能力和效率方面的发展令人印象深刻。然而,中国的资本市场仍处于发展之中,面临着一般性的和特有的挑战,其他亚洲资本市场面临着甚至更大的发展不均衡问题。分析亚洲资本市场运行中的正面经验和负面教训,并由此得出可以进一步改善亚洲资本市场分配效率、金融包容性和预警性的技术改革和应用,警惕可能会引起问题的改革,这可以使从业者、政策制定者和研究人员从中受益,进而极大地促进整体繁荣。

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Agenda

星期四, 17 3 月, 2022

10:00 am–11:10 am

What Gets Measured Gets Managed: Investment and the Cost of Capital

 

Zhiguo He, Fuji Bank and Heller Professor of Finance and Jeuck Faculty Fellow, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago and Senior Fellow, ABFER

Discussant: Kjetil Storesletten, Richard and Beverly Fink Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota

Session Chair: Michael Song, Professor, Department of Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong and Senior Fellow, ABFER