中国实时金融状况指数的构建

金融状况指数(FCI)综合了多个金融变量的信息,能够比单个指标更全面、直观地反映金融市场的整体运行情况。基于动态因子模型直接利用混频数据测算我国的实时FCI,突破了传统方法要求数据频度一致的限制,从而大大增强了FCI的时效性,使FCI具备金融市场流动性指示器的功能。实证研究表明,改进后的FCI能够揭示近年来我国货币政策的松紧程度,其走势比CPI月同比领先7个月,对通胀的预测效果优于其构成变量。     

企业物流质量成本体系构建

文章以PAF质量成本模型为基础,通过分析质量成本的构成要素和企业物流质量的影响因素,提出企业物流质量成本核算指标,构建出物流质量成本体系,作为企业核算和控制物流质量成本的依据。研究结果有助于企业实现物流质量保障与成本控制的均衡和协调,使企业为提高物流质量而引起的质量成本达到一个最佳水平,使企业的竞争力和经济效益得以提高。     

中国多机制门限金融状况指数编制及应用

研究目标：实证编制及应用中国多机制门限金融状况指数(MR-TFCI)。研究方法：通过拓展构建了多机制门限向量自回归(MR-TVAR)模型和MR-TFCI的多机制门限编制公式，从经济增长(RG)目标出发，选取5个金融变量，测算四个机制的广义脉冲响应函数值，编制了中国MR-TFCI，并比较其与 2机制门限FCI(2R-TFCI)和1机制线性FCI(1R-FCI)的优劣。研究发现：与2R-TFCI和1R-FCI相比，MR-TFCI是RG更优的先行、相关性、因果性和预测指标；中国货币政策调控经济增长的效应和传导渠道具有门限特征；中国货币政策调控经济增长的方式类型是价格和数量结合型的。研究创新：构建了MR-TVAR模型和MR-FCI的多机制门限编制公式，编制了首个多机制门限金融状况指数。研究价值：为中国政府部门实施货币政策和实体经济进行投融资决策提供了科学决策依据。     

基于价值创造的虚拟企业稳定性研究

虚拟企业是介于企业和市场的商业组织形式,是各种商业利益相关者的一种合作形式,在克服了企业组织刚性的同时,也产生了稳定性问题。敏捷性和稳定性就是虚拟企业中的一对张力,二者间的均衡变动可能改变联盟现状。从敏捷性与稳定性的二维视角,构建以敏捷性和稳定性为基础,以协作性为支柱的三位一体的虚拟企业相对均衡模型,可以实现虚拟企业的最佳稳定性。     

榨菜中亚硝酸盐提取工艺的研究

本文选取市场中常见的榨菜为测定样品,以亚硝酸盐的含量为测定指标,筛选提取亚硝酸盐最佳工艺条件.通过单因素试验,料液比、水浴锅温度、浸泡时间对样品中亚硝酸盐提取量的研究,确定最佳提取量的范围.在单因素的基础上进行正交试验,得到榨菜中亚硝酸盐提取的最佳工艺条件为:A2B3C1,,即水浴锅温度50℃、水浴锅时间25min、料液比1:7.在此条件下测得榨菜中的亚硝酸盐的含量是2.850mg/kg.     

基于供求定理的卷烟市场批发价格形成探讨

在重点卷烟品牌在全国市场快速发展的时期,作为检验品牌运行质量的市场批发价格指标显得愈发重要。文章应用经济理论中的供求定理对卷烟市场上的供求关系变化进行分析,并构建出市场批发价格形成均衡模型,以此作为研究市场批发价格的形成和变动机制。     

AUC-RF指标筛选方法在财务预警中的应用

本文介绍基于随机森林算法的AUC-RF指标筛选方法。以224家制造业上市公司为样本,利用AUC-RF方法构建财务预警指标体系。通过实验对比,说明该方法较传统的显著性相关性指标筛选方法具有明显优势,并且该方法能度量出指标的重要程度。     

基于经济适应性的公路网均衡发展评价

针对目前公路网发展情况,从公路交通与经济社会的经济适应性角度出发,建立了公路网规模适应性和结构适应性的均衡发展评价指标体系,并应用弹性系数法对指标进行量化;同时,参照目前国际上应用比较广泛的计算分配均衡程度指数的方法 -基尼系数与洛伦兹曲线,构建了公路网均衡发展评价方法以及评判标准;最后,以我国中部六省为例进行实证研究,研究结果表明建立的评价指标体系以及评价方法可以用于公路网均衡发展评价工作,并具有一定的应用价值。     

生态产品质量评估体系的构建思路

在辨析生态产品和优质生态产品内涵的基础上,参考国内外生态环境相关评估体系,可确定生态产品质量评估体系的筛选指标和构建原则,提出构建这一体系的基本思路。依托生态产品质量评估体系,可以进一步建立考虑生态产品质量差异的生态补偿标准体系,构建生态产品市场交易规则,完善绿色产品市场管理体系,建立以生态产品质量为核心的绩效考核制度。     

货币政策与金融形势指数FCI: 基于VAR的实证分析

为了探索资产价格在货币政策中的信息功能,经济学者们构造了金融形势指数FCI以反映未来产出与通货膨胀率的变化.常规的FCI指数包括真实短期利率、真实房地产价格指数、真实有效汇率指数和真实股权价格指数.鉴于中国货币政策的实践,本文拓展了FCI指数的概念,考察了加入真实货币供应量的FCI指数在中国货币政策传导中的信息角色.基于VAR模型的实证研究表明：FCI指数可以成为中国货币政策的重要参照系;包含真实货币供应量的FCI指数对CPI通胀率具有更好的预测力.     

Incumplimiento del salario mínimo en Europa central y oriental

En este estudio se analiza el incumplimiento del salario mínimo durante el periodo 2003–2012 en diez países de Europa central y oriental con salario mínimo obligatorio nacional. A partir de los datos de EU‐SILC y la metodología propuesta por Bhorat, Kanbur y Mayet (2013), se cuantifica la incidencia y magnitud del incumplimiento. Se realizan análisis de regresión sobre determinantes individuales, laborales y macroeconómicos. Aunque la incidencia permanece relativamente baja, los trabajadores a los que se dirigen las políticas de salario mínimo parecen los más expuestos a su incumplimiento. Con el tiempo, una mayor incidencia se asocia a una razón más alta entre salario mínimo y salario medio.     

Cultural Economy Planning in Creative Cities: Discourse and Practice

While a growing body of research analyses the functional mechanisms of the cultural or creative economy, there has been little attention devoted to understanding how local governments translate this work into policy. Moreover, research in this vein focuses predominately on Richard Florida's creative class thesis rather than considering the wider body of work that may influence policy. This article seeks to develop a deeper understanding of how municipalities conceptualize and plan for the cultural economy through the lens of two cities held up as model ‘creative cities’ — Austin, Texas and Toronto, Ontario. The work pays particular attention to how the cities adopt and adapt leading theories, strategies and discourses of the cultural economy. While policy documents indicate that the cities embrace the creative city model, in practice agencies tend to adapt conventional economic development strategies for cultural economy activity and appropriate the language of the creative city for multiple purposes.     

Input/output ranges and performance: an examination of US machine tool producers

Despite the establishment of high-tech multinational enterprises (MNEs) in Ireland since the late 1950s, the country did not succeed in closing the technological gap with most of its EU counterparts. The weak National System of Innovation (NSI), and in particular low business and government R&D levels, combined with a lack of research and technology linkages between MNEs and indigenous firms, explain these poor results. However, the Shannon region in the West of the country presents some specific institutional characteristics that could theoretically make the region a strong technological enclave. The various actors in the region - i.e. the administrative, financial, political and research institutions, as well as the business organizations - have indeed infused a new type of economic development. After a brief review of the available concepts and models articulated around these actors and their interrelationships, the paper analyses whether the Shannon region, taken as an illustrative example, mirrors a specific economic and technological localized setting. The study is based on a survey of indigenous and foreign firms.     

Sixty years of discrimination and diversity research in human resource management: A review with suggestions for future research directions

This article reviews discrimination and diversity research published in Human Resource Management (HRM) over the past 60 years. While discrimination and diversity are very different constructs, it is often informative to study them together, because when people recognize each other's diversity, this can result in bias, stereotyping, and discrimination. We conducted bibliographic searches for terms related to discrimination and diversity as well as a manual search through every title and abstract published in HRM over the last 60 years to assess article relevance. The search resulted in 135 research articles with 136 unique studies (i.e., samples) which are reviewed in this article. Sex and race are the demographics that have been examined the most in HRM, while religion has been examined the least. Moreover, the number of studies examining lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) employees in the workplace in HRM has grown quickly within the past 10 years, culminating in a recent meta‐analysis. Our review looks at some of the earliest research published, the most recent research published, and the overall trends we identified in the research over the years for both discrimination and diversity articles. We then make future research suggestions and recommendations to advance the study of discrimination and diversity in the coming years.     

Multinomial distributions applied to random sampling of particulate materials

When sampling a batch consisting of particulate material, the distribution of a sample estimator can be characterized using knowledge about the sample drawing process. With Bernoulli sampling, the number of particles in the sample is binomially distributed. Because this is rarely realized in practice, we propose a sampling design in which the possible samples have a nearly equal mass. Expected values and variances of the sample estimator are calculated. It is shown that the sample estimator becomes identical to the Horvitz–Thompson estimator in the case of a large batch-to-sample mass ratio and a large sample mass. Simulations and experiments were performed to test the theory. Simulations confirm that the round-off error due to the discrete nature of particles is negligible for large sample sizes. Sampling experiments were carried out with a mixture of PolyPropylene (PP) and PolyTetraFluorEthylene (PTFE) spheres suspended in a viscous medium. The measured and theoretical variations are in good agreement.     

The Early History of the Cumulants and the Gram-Charlier Series

The early history of the Gram-Charlier series is discussed from three points of view: (1) a generalization of Laplace's central limit theorem, (2) a least squares approximation to a continuous function by means of Chebyshev-Hermite polynomials, (3) a generalization of Gauss's normal distribution to a system of skew distributions. Thiele defined the cumulants in terms of the moments, first by a recursion formula and later by an expansion of the logarithm of the moment generating function. He devised a differential operator which adjusts any cumulant to a desired value. His little known 1899 paper in Danish on the properties of the cumulants is translated into English in the Appendix.     

Capturing the Implications of Services Trade Liberalization

This paper evaluates the impact of service sector trade liberalization on the world economy by a ten-region, eleven-sector CGE model with import embodied technology transfer from developed countries to developing countries. Simulation results show that service sector trade liberalization not only directly affects world service production and trade, but also has significant implications for other sectors in the economy. The major channel of the impact is through inter-industry input-output relations and TFP growth induced from services imported by developing countries from developed countries, which may be embodied with new information and advanced technology.     

Performance appraisal and culture: practice and attitudes in Hong Kong and Great Britain

This article compares the practice of and attitudes towards performance appraisal for managerial and professional staff in Hong Kong and Britain, and considers the extent to which actual practice and employee preferences are in alignment. Findings suggest that appraisal may be more widespread in Hong Kong than in Britain. However, British appraisal tends to be more participative and to place greater emphasis on discussing objectives, development and career plans. Hong Kong appraisals appear to be more directive and Hong Kong respondents perceive a higher level of 'negative' appraiser behaviour. In spite of this, Hong Kong respondents show if anything slightly more confidence in the utility of appraisal than do British respondents. They show stronger support for appraisal's use for reward and punishment and less support for the objectives-setting and training and development uses than do the British sample. Hong Kong respondents are more likely than their British counterparts to favour involving a more senior manager in appraisal, and they are less likely to prefer more frequent appraisals. There was little evidence that Hong Kong respondents had a stronger preference for group-based appraisal criteria, although they did show more support than the British sample for the use of personality as a basis for appraisal. Overall, the suggestion is that appraisal has been adopted in Hong Kong organizations but that the practice of appraisal has been adapted to suit the cultural characteristics of the society.     

Narrative construction of expatriate experience and career cycle: discursive patterns in Finnish stories of international

Expatriate experience is not only a disconnected occasion for cross-cultural anxiety and adjustment but also an important event in the process of self-development and learning. Following this view and arguing for a discursive approach, the paper focuses on ways in which expatriates themselves tell and interpret their development and movement across expatriate career cycle. Meaning systems connecting expatriate job with previous and following work experiences in career stories of Finnish engineers and managers were identified using a combination of narrative and discourse analysis. No evidence was found of an autonomous expatriate discourse but, in contrast, expatriate career cycle was narrated using available organizational repertoires of development and career. Describing and discussing the meaning-making properties of three identified discourses - bureaucratic, occupational and enterprising - the paper emphasizes the organizational environment of expatriate experience while acknowledging the limits of these contemporary career vocabularies in addressing individual learning and change in cross-cultural settings.     

Internet professionals: job skills for an on-line age

The paper explores the increasing popularity of the Internet technology Singapore. It argues that the diffusion of Internet technology to South-East Asia would create new duties and responsibilities for human resource (HR) managers. One such duty is the identification of the skills which professional Internet staff would need to perform their work effectively in organizations. Using a triangulation research method, empirical study has identified the new professional Internet jobs which have emerged the IT industry in Singapore and the skills that professional Internet personnel require do their jobs effectively. Analysis of the findings indicates that professional Internet skills involve both technical and creative abilities and that, in explaining or defining professional Internet skills, it is necessary to use both the technical and the social conceptions of skill. This argument is based on the view that the creative skills include tacit skills so that a definition based solely on the technical conception of skill cannot capture the various dimensions of Internet skills. The implications of the research findings for human resource managers are raised.