• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.237-246
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• 2021

This paper explores the relationship between price mechanism and flipping activity of initial public offerings (IPOs) in Pakistan's emerging economy. This study uses a cross-sectional data set of 95 firms listed on Pakistan Stock Exchange from 2000 to 2019. This study employs the ordinary least square and quantile regression techniques to capture the relationship between price mechanism and flipping activity. The results show that book-built IPOs flip substantially less than fixed-price IPOs. This is consistent with the signaling theory assertion that roadshows are arranged by underwriters to capture investors' demand and set the offer prices of IPOs. If investors learn the fair values of quality IPOs, then the offer prices will be close to the intrinsic values, thus reducing flipping. The findings also provide conclusive evidence for understanding the usefulness of and the more relevant information regarding the pricing mechanism. In particular, it provides a better understanding of how companies actually use the pricing mechanism information in the flipping of IPO shares. The results of this study are also valuable to underwriters, and regulators, for instance, provides underwriters with the discretion to allocate the IPO shares and the SECP, in revising regulation on the disclosure of IPO pricing methods.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.103-112
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• 2022

This study aims to obtain empirical evidence regarding the link between tax avoidance (TA) and the readability of financial statements. This is a quantitative research using Ordinary Least Squares regression analysis which is then processed using STATA 14.0. A total of 278 companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange during the period 2017-2019 is the data of this study. In detecting TA in a company, this study uses the ETR and CashETR and for the measurement of financial statement readability, this study uses gunning fog index and length of the document. The findings of this study suggest that tax avoidance and clear financial statements are mutually exclusive in the sense that when tax avoidance is practiced, companies will tend to conceal the information conveyed by financial statements. In other words, it is concluded that the more a company engages in tax avoidance, the lower the readability of the company's financial statements. This study provides in-depth evidence that tax avoidance is indirectly related to the disclosure of information by the company. Users of financial statements will realize that the company seeks to make disclosures that are in their best interests to avoid their tax avoidance strategy being detected.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제14권12호
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• pp.129-139
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• 2016

Purpose - This paper examines the explanatory power of the agency theory in the determination of cash holdings for Korean retail firms. If the agency theory holds, a firm with strong corporate governance structure tends to have low cash holdings. A strong governance structure makes the CEO of this firm to behave in the interests of shareholders and thus the CEO has low incentive to stockpile cash holdings, which can be easily diverted for the CEO's own managerial purposes. We investigate this relationship between corporate governance structure and cash holdings, by using corporate governance scores as a proxy variable that captures the effectiveness of corporate governance mechanism. Research design, data, and methodology - We adopt the sample of publicly listed retail firms in KOSPI market from 2005 to 2013. Financial and accounting statements are gathered from the WISEfn database. We also use the corporate governance scores published by Korean Corporate Governance Service. The relationship between the corporate governance scores and cash holdings is cross-sectionally estimated based on the ordinary least square method. This estimation method is widely accepted in the existing literature. The sample of large conglomerates, Chebol, and the remainder firms are separately examined as well, to account for the distinctive internal financing environment in these large conglomerates. Results - We mainly contribute to the extant literature by providing empirical evidence against the agency theory of cash policy. Unlike the prediction of agency theory, we confirm statistically insignificant or even positive correlations between the set of corporate governance scores and cash-asset ratios. Almost all the major corporate governance attributes including total score, shareholder rights, board structure, and the quality of information disclosure do not show negative correlations with cash holdings, which poses a strong challenge to the validity of the agency theory in the determination of retail firms' cash holdings. Conclusions - This study presents interesting empirical results with respect to the cash policy in Korean retail firms. Consistent to prior studies, I verify that the agency theory only limitedly explains the level of cash holdings. Future studies may obtain more robust results by examining a longer sample period.

• 항공우주정책ㆍ법학회지
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.41-74
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• 2020

과징금 제도는 태생적으로 효율성을 DNA로 가지고 있다. 법령을 위반한 사업자로부터 부당한 수익을 회수하거나, 사업면허를 박탈하거나 영업중지를 명하는 행정처분이 오히려 일반 소비자의 권익을 침해하게 되는 경우 금전적인 제재수단을 통해 동일한 효과를 거둘 수 있는 제도가 바로 과징금이다. 게다가 위법을 입증하기 위해 긴 시간과 막대한 비용이 소요되는 재판절차에 비해 행정관청의 일방적인 부과 명령만으로 효력을 발휘하므로 정부입장에서는 여간 편한 것이 아니다. 그런데 우리나라 항공분야 과징금 부과제도에 있어서 절차적 정당성이 잘 갖춰져 있는지는 의문이다. 외국의 입법례와 비교할 때, 우리나라의 항공분야 과징금 제도는 부과금액의 규모나 부과절차에서 몇 가지 아쉬운 점들을 발견할 수 있기 때문이다. 본 논문은 우리나라 항공분야에서 처분되는 과징금 제도의 개선방향을 연구할 목적으로 집필되었다. 다만 고액 과징금의 문제점이나 당사자의 방어권 보장 등에 관한 여러 쟁점은 선행연구에서 다루고 있는 바, 본 연구는 항공안전 분야 과징금제도에 있어서 항공선진국이라 할 수 있는 미국의 제도를 깊이 있게 살펴 봄으로써 우리나라 제도의 개선방향을 탐구하려는 의도에서 연구를 진행하였다. 우선 미국 연방항공청(Federal Aviation Administration, FAA)의 항공분야 행정제재의 특성과 미국 항공 과징금 제도를 개괄적으로 살펴보기로 하였다. 나아가 최근 항공안전 관리에 대한 패러다임의 변화로 종래의 사후적인 항공사고 관리행정에서 사전적이고 예방적 조치로서 항공안전 자율보고를 중시하는 새로운 경향을 ASAP를 비롯한 각종 제도를 중심으로 살피고자 하였다. 또한 미국 FAA가 채택하고 있는 과징금 부과에 관한 정형적 절차에 대해서도 고찰하였다. 위와 같은 검토를 바탕으로 본 논문은 우리나라 항공안전에 관한 보고제도의 개선방향도 살펴보았다.