污染……

车有了,房子有了,道路变宽了,城市漂亮了,但喝水成问题了!     

民生财政铸就幸福民生——河北省平泉县公共财政造福百姓生活侧记

<正>街道变宽了,路灯变亮了,绿地变多了,河水变清了,天空变蓝了,百姓变富了,……如今,走进河北省平泉县,会发现一座座高楼拔地而起,一个个产业园区竞相亮相,一道道橡胶坝蓄起了片片湖水,一幢幢农民新屋陆续入住,城乡的面貌正发生     

股市黑天鹅

坊间流传一个故事,说三十年前有一个罪犯被判死刑,行刑日寸子弹出了问题,第一枪是臭弹,犯人腿软跪下了;第二枪又没响,犯人裤子湿了;第三枪还是没响,犯人实在撑不住了,说别用枪了,用刀捅行不,太吓人了。三十年后的今年,股市第一波下跌到了4500点,投资者没减仓,坚持价值投资熬住了;第二波跌破3000点,投资者;中进去抢了反弹;但第三波股市又跌了个十连阴,有投资者终于崩溃了,说别跌了,把钱没收算了,太吓人了。这是一个笑话,但相信许多投资者会后悔年初没早些减仓,以减少损失,没有减仓或抄底抄到山腰上的投资管理人也成了市场嘲笑的对象。     

预算绩效管理与财政管理改革创新——对话江苏省苏州市财政局副局长黄济美

近十年来,苏州市财政局积极开展财政预算绩效管理工作,从参与江苏省财政厅全省义务教育财政支出绩效评价试点开始,走出了一条"理念培训与实践同步推进,制度设计与前瞻探索共引领,整体设计与重点实施相结合"的预算绩效管理道路,有效地提升了预算管理的科学化、精细化水平,提高了财政资金的使用效益,增强了绩效理念,健全了评价制度,创新了评价机制,拓展了评价范围,深化了评价内涵,完善了评价方式和方法,强化了评价结果应用,促进了政府     

银行监控设备莫成摆设

编辑同志: 时下,各金融机构营业网点在加强内控制度建设,防范内外风险方面下了很大功夫,特别是在硬件方面,加装了不锈钢防护栏,配置了电视监控设备,在一定程度上减少了风险隐患,维护了金融机构自身的形象和广大群众的利益,赢得了社会各界的赞誉.     

新会计准则下对资产减值若干问题的探讨

2006年,财政部正式颁布了新企业会计准则。顺应了我国市场经济发展的要求,实现了与国际惯例的趋同,首次推出了《会计准则第8号——资产减值》,建立健全了资产减值会计体系,规范了资产减值行为,统一了资产减值会计核算。     

走走站站看看

健康是福,健康是财富,可是上班族坐久了,看久了,忙久了,从头到脚就会报警了：眼花了,颈硬了,腰椎间盘突出了。这时,健康必须摆上个人生活重要的“议事日程”。每天走走,站站,看看,持之以恒,让自己拥有健康,让这份自己可以掌控的财富相伴终生。     

屋外的呐喊

曾经,伟大的鲁迅先生发出了铁屋中的呐喊,让小民们明白了自己的处境,也唤醒了一代人。而今在和谐社会,或许是社会进步了,或许市场经济让智者们更聪明了,发自屋里的呐喊越来越少,越来     

小窗口，大民生——好作风造就好“门面”——人社系统窗口单位作风建设专项行动纪实

从年初启动至今的人社部窗口单位作风建设专项行动（以下简称专项行动）已接近尾声,历时10个月,专项行动可以说是给全系统窗口单位进行了一次“大洗澡”。从取得的效果看,一方面,办事群众感到在人社窗口单位办亨少跑路了,不卡壳了,服务场所更加人性化了,服务方式更加亲民了,服务平台更加多样化了,服务更加周到便捷了,工作人员的态度也更亲切了,各种惠民政策能更好地落地了。另一方面,人社窗口单位的自身建设也得到了明显加强。     

社保阳光行

从2007年9月27日到2008年1月7日,一场,声势浩大的“社保阳光行”活动,让数百万齐齐哈尔市老百姓开了眼界。敲锣打鼓的路演活动,妙趣横生的社保知识竞赛,异彩纷呈的社保大讲堂,平等互动的网络平台等,让老百姓了解了社保,走近了社保。社保政策从服务大厅的三尺柜台走上了街头,走进了工厂,走进了社区,走进了乡镇,走进了农村。在100天的系列宣传活动中,有3万多人迈进了养老保险安全网。     

Reprint of “Discourses of transdisciplinarity: Looking back to the future”

The current ascendancy of transdisciplinarity (TD) is marked by an exponential growth of publications, a widening array of contexts, and increased interest across academic, public and private sectors. This investigation traces historical trends, rhetorical claims, and social formations that have shaped three major discourses of TD: transcendence, problem solving, and transgression. In doing so, it also takes account of developments that have emerged or gained traction since the early 21st century when a 2004 issue of Futures on the same topic was being written.The epistemological problem at the heart of the discourse of transcendence is the idea of unity, traced in the West to ancient Greece. The emergence of transdisciplinarity was not a complete departure from this historical quest, but it signalled the need for new syntheses at a time of growing fragmentation of knowledge and culture. New synthetic frameworks emerged, including general systems, post/structuralism, feminist theory, and sustainability. New organizations also formed to advance conceptual frameworks aimed at transcending the narrowness of disciplinary worldviews and interdisciplinary combinations of approaches that did not supplant the status quo of academic structure and classification.The discourse of problem solving is not new. It was fundamental to conceptions of interdisciplinarity in the first half of the 20th century. Heightened pressure to solve problems of society, though, fostered growing alignment of TD with solving complex problems as well as trans-sector participation of stakeholders in society and team-based science. The discourse of transgression was forged in critique of the existing system of knowledge and education. TD became aligned with imperatives of cultural critique, socio-political movements, and conceptions of post-normal science and wicked problems that break free of reductionist and mechanistic approaches. It also became a recognized premise in interdisciplinary fields, including cultural studies, women's and gender studies, urban studies, and environmental studies. And, calls for TD arrived at a moment of wider crisis in the privileging of dominant forms of knowledge, human rights accountability, and democratic participation.Even with distinct patterns of definition, though, discourses are not air-tight categories. Transcendence was initially an epistemological project, but the claim of transcendence overlaps increasingly with problem solving. The imperatives of transgression also cut across the discourses of transcendence and problem solving. Broadly speaking, though, emphasis is shifting from traditional epistemology to problem solving, from the pre-given to the emergent, and from universality to hybridity and contextuality.     

Overcoming failure in infrastructure risk governance implementation: large dams journey

There is ample recognition of the risk inherent in our very existence and modes of social organization, with a reasonable expectation that implementing risk governance will result in enhanced resilience as a society. Despite this, risk governance is not a mainstream approach in the infrastructure sector, regardless of the increasing number of peer-reviewed published conceptualizations, mature procedures to support its application, or public calls to cope with systemic risks in our modern societies. This paper aims to offer a different view on the issue of risk governance, with focus in the analysis of the root causes of its relatively low degree of implementation in the infrastructure sector. We later analyze the impact of such essential causes, which we have grouped and labeled as the ontology, the concerns, the anathemas, and the forgotten, in the specific field of large dams. Finally, we describe the journey toward risk governance in the specific field of large dams, thus supporting the ultimate objective of this paper to facilitate an evidence-based approach to successful risk governance implementation within and outside the dam sector.     

Hunting humans: A future for tourism in 2200

This paper offers a future scenario to expose the potential engagement of tourism in the year 2200. Taking a socio-constructionist approach to research and through the analysis of secondary data, it explores current issues and debates concerned with the environment, disasters and depletion of natural resources; social context including movies and entertainment, the media and technology, the evolution of the theme park and cultural transmission; and economical realities, covering poverty vs. world elite and global culture, all of which are seen as drivers of the potential future tourism market. In so doing, it presents a narrative (scenario), provoking the notion that in the year 2200 death and hunting humans will form part of the tourism entertainment industry and a practice carried out by the wealthy-elite, a view backed with substance. It argues, that as a result of past and current engagements with murder, death and human atrocities, and significantly our relationship with death, humans will gradually become more accustomed to death as a form of spectacle, influenced by current entertainment, movies and the media. Death as entertainment by form of detachment (emotionally and physically) will further influence the future fun aspect of hunting humans. Significantly, changes in our natural environment will lead to great challenges, lack of water, depleted food resources and greater disparity between the wealthy and impoverished; all of which will drive the change in our humanly existence. This papers aims to provide a provocative account of the ‘potential future meaning of tourism’, through the application of current knowledge, and significantly, it is our relationship with death and violence that are central, death and violence are becoming diluted and thus, will be a source of future entertainment and a tourism activity – in less humans can reach a level of transcendence that has never been present, to transcend the culture they have created, one that has always witnessed violence as a means to survival. If violence can be detached then we will be presented with a ‘wild card’, a future that is truly out of this world.     

Endogenous Growth and Real Effects of Monetary Policy: R&D and Physical Capital Complementarities

We study the real long-run effects of the structural stance of monetary policy and of inflation, in the context of a monetary growth model where R&D is complemented with physical capital accumulation. We look into the effects on a set of real macroeconomic variables that have been of interest to policymakers—the economic growth rate, real interest rate, physical investment rate, capital-to-labor ratio, R&D intensity, and velocity of money. These variables have been previously analyzed from the perspective of different, separated, strands of the theoretical and empirical literature. Additionally, we analyze the long-run relationship between inflation and both the effectiveness of real industrial-policy shocks and the market structure, assessed namely by average firm size. We present novel cross-country evidence on the empirical relationship between the latter and long-run inflation.     

Understanding the Restatement Process

Much research examines investors' reactions to restatements and the effects of restatements on chief executive officer (CEO), chief financial officer (CFO), and auditor turnover; however, little research explores the process of restating financial reports. In this study, we investigate the process of issuing a restatement. We specifically focus on the interactions among the parties involved (e.g., CFO, board, audit committee, audit partner, and regulators) in determining and ultimately resolving a restatement, as well as the impact of the restatement on the relationships among these parties. We investigate the restatement process via semi‐structured interviews. We immersed ourselves in the restatement process by interviewing all parties typically involved, such as CFOs, auditors, and regulators. Given the findings in the auditor–client management negotiation area, which suggest that negotiation of accounting treatment and disclosure is frequent, our findings indicate that negotiations and/or difficult discussions take place among the parties involved when determining whether a restatement is necessary as well as in achieving the ultimate restatement outcome. Our findings (based on a small sample) suggest that the restatement process may influence or be influenced by such factors as the nature of the misstatement, the party that identified the misstatement, the reaction of the various parties to the misstatement, disagreement among the parties on whether to restate, communication with the regulator, the press release, client size, the personality of the CFO, audit committee strength, and the relationships among the parties subsequent to the restatement.     

高铁时空压缩效应与公司权益资本成本——来自A股上市公司的经验证据

以往文献大多集中于交通基础设施对一国或地区宏观经济的影响,而较少关注其对资本市场的作用。本文基于信息不对称视角,考察了高铁开通改变地理距离的时空约束后如何影响公司权益资本成本。以2007—2018年A股上市公司为样本,本文研究发现,上市公司所在地开通高铁后,由于内外信息不对称程度的降低,公司权益资本成本显著下降。该现象受到一系列公司特征的影响,与多数投资者聚集地距离越远、业务复杂度越高的公司,权益资本成本受高铁开通影响而下降得更明显。进一步的研究表明,高铁开通后公司股票流动性的提升及信息披露质量的提高是影响权益资本成本的重要路径。     

The Role of Social Media in the Capital Market: Evidence from Consumer Product Recalls

We examine how corporate social media affects the capital market consequences of firms’ disclosure in the context of consumer product recalls. Product recalls constitute a “product crisis” exposing the firm to reputational damage, loss of future sales, and legal liability. During such a crisis it is crucial for the firm to quickly and directly communicate its intended message to a wide network of stakeholders, which, in turn, renders corporate social media a potentially useful channel of disclosure. While we document that corporate social media, on average, attenuates the negative price reaction to recall announcements, the attenuation benefits of corporate social media vary with the level of control the firm has over its social media content. In particular, with the arrival of Facebook and Twitter, firms relinquished complete control over their social media content, and the attenuation benefits of corporate social media, while still significant, lessened. Detailed Twitter analysis confirms that the moderating effect of social media varies with the level of firm involvement and with the amount of control exerted by other users: the negative price reaction to a recall is attenuated by the frequency of tweets by the firm, while exacerbated by the frequency of tweets by other users.     

城市群政策能否促进区域金融协调发展?——基于方言视角下的实证检验

基于中国区域金融高质量发展的现实要求,本文试图解释城市群政策对金融协调发展的影响,并深入探究其中的机制路径。研究发现,城市群政策有效提升了地区的金融发展质量,一方面提升了金融发展总量,另一方面弥合了地区间的金融发展差距,由此实现了总量和均衡的双重拟合。进一步地,本文确证了方言一致性在整体上有助于城市群政策发挥积极作用,不仅在城市群内部促进了金融协调发展,还在城市群分割处弱化了由城市群政策带来的市场分割效应,体现了非正式制度在"正式制度-金融要素"之间扮演的重要角色。从机制上看,与城市群密切相关的地方文化--方言,更多的是通过经济个体间的身份认同(信任)来促成地区间的金融协调发展。鉴于此,本文认为对城市群的划分和发展,不仅要考虑地理距离,还应考虑以方言为代表的文化距离,并提出了相应的政策建议。     

Board Governance in Canadian Universities

In response to increasing fiscal pressure, Canadian universities have turned towards managerialism, that is, applying managerial tools of business with the objectives of improving operating efficiency, raising the institution's marketability, and generating commercial revenue. In addition to employing the services of professional administrators to enhance the institution's economic performance, universities appear to be switching from a collegial model of shared governance to a corporate model of governance. An objective of this exploratory study is to examine the current state of board governance in Canadian universities. Results of a survey from 133 board members of 28 universities indicate, by and large, that board members seem to have a good understanding of their roles and responsibilities. The boards are involved in setting strategic directions, goals, and objectives, and are making operating and capital resource allocation decisions. They are also monitoring the performance of the university and the president, and are involved in recruiting, succession planning, and determining the president's compensation package. The respondents report that the board committee structure and the support provided to board members allow them to discharge their responsibilities as board members properly. There is, however, room for improvement, especially in the board's participation in defining and reviewing the institution's strategic directions, plans, goals, and objectives, as well as monitoring the performance of the university and senior administrators. Other areas for possible improvement include continuing education on matters within the board's purview as well as providing better information for decision making to board members.     

An Empirical Examination of the Dissemination of Equity Price Innovations Between the Emerging Markets of Nordic-Baltic States and Major Advanced Markets

: We employ three econometric models to examine the relative influence of the stock markets of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany on the stock markets of the Nordic-Baltic states. The results show that the Nordic-Baltic markets respond to price innovations from the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany in diverse ways in the period 2001–2013. Response patterns for Finland, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, and Denmark are more significant to market innovations from the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, and less significant to those from Germany. German influence is more significant over Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia than the rest of the advanced markets. While the dynamics of the Nordic-Baltic markets exhibit a dominance of own price innovation, the influence of the United States is stronger than that of France, the United Kingdom, and Germany. These results imply that investors from the Nordic States may derive greater benefits by diversifying into Germany and vice versa, rather than diversifying into the United States, the United Kingdom, or France. Investors from the Baltic States may obtain greater advantages by adopting portfolio strategies that take advantage of potentially better diversification benefits obtainable from the United States, the United Kingdom, and France rather than from Germany, and the reverse will also be in order.