Through Trial and Error to Collusion*

In this article we study a very simple trial and error learning process in the context of a Cournot oligopoly. Without any knowledge of the payoff functions players increase, respectively decrease, their quantity as long as this leads to higher profits. We show that despite the absence of any coordination or punishing device this process converges to the joint‐profit‐maximizing outcome.     

The FRC AND Accounting Standard‐Setting: Should I Still Call Australia Home?

This paper analyses the decision of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) to replace Australian accounting standards with international accounting standards on 1 January, 2005. Two main topics are considered: the appropriateness of the FRC's directive, and the case against the proposed adoption date. We argue that the FRC has not conducted sufficient consultation with affected parties and that the hasty implementation will impose costs that could have been avoided with the exercise of more caution.     

毕业生积分评定的数据处理

毕业生积分评定要进行大量的数据处理,若按照传统的手工进行计算,工作量很大.本文提出利用EXCEL对有关数据进行处理,可以减轻工作量,提高效率.     

Executives’ Orientations as Indicators of Crisis Management Policies and Practices*

ABSTRACT The paper examines effects of executives’ orientations on crisis management awareness and practices, drawing on the simplicity and paradox management theories. It is suggested that a focus on single‐sided management constitutes an antecedent of crisis proneness. Employing a set of key corporate domains and based on a holistic organizational approach, the study aims at assessing the extent to which companies are crisis prone or prepared. In a sample of 82 Istaeli business and not‐for‐profit organizations it was found that human resource management, strategy, structure, and unlearning factors significantly predicted crisis preparedness. These results suggest that unlearning, despite a mere allusion to this correlate in the simplicity and paradox management theories, correlates better with crisis preparedness. By contrast, traditional strategy‐related and structural effects were marginally related to crisis management policies. Implications and suggestions for further research are proposed.     

“葡萄牙诉欧共体理事会案”——欧洲法院对WTO协议的适用及对我国的启示

入世后,我国法院在司法实践中应如何适用 WTO 协议这一问题,已经成为一个亟待解决的现实问题。“它山之石,可以攻玉”,在 WTO 协议的适用问题上积累了丰富经验的欧洲法院的做法,无疑值得我国法院研究和借鉴。本文拟对欧洲法院确立其对 WTO 协议基本态度的奠基之案——“葡萄牙诉欧共体理事会案”作一简介和评析,同时就我国法院在此问题上可采取的做法提出自己的建议。     

CREDIT CYCLES REDUX*

Theoretical studies have shown that under unorthodox assumptions on preferences and production technologies, collateral constraints can act as a powerful amplification and propagation mechanism of exogenous shocks. We investigate whether or not this result holds under more standard assumptions. We find that collateral constraints typically generate small output amplification. Large amplification is obtained as a “knife‐edge” type of result.     

契约角度的资本结构优化

企业作为一系列契约的耦合体,在组织形式上表现为通过对企业契约的控制权与剩余索取权的对应配置而形成的治理结构,在广义会计上则表现为企业的资本结构。从资本结构的主要构成内容来看,债券或债务与股票都是规制资本交易的两种契约手段,故从契约角度研究资本结构便日益受到重视。本文在前人研究的基础上,从会计等式的契约属性出发,从而实现契约与资本结构的对接,并在分析股权契约与债务契约的特点和功能的基础上,提出了通过股权契约与债务契约的适度耦合来优化资本结构的新思路。     

论老工业基地对地方经济的作用——以洛阳市为例

本文以洛阳为例,用实证的方法探讨了以装备制造业为主体的洛阳老工业基地在河南省工业经济中的重要作用,提出并分析了洛阳老工业基地在地方经济中,具有城镇化水平提高的带动作用、对农业现代化的促进作用和对全面建设小康社会与中原崛起的促进作用。     

对加拿大货币需求的数量分析

在特定的经济条件下，全社会货币需求量以及这个量的变动规律，是一国政府制定并执行货币政策和财政政策时所要考虑的重要参数。战后以来，西方国家政府一般是通过货币政策和财政政策的执行，最终影响产出量和就业水平。分析影响货币需求变动的因素及其变量之间的数量关系，是正确地预测货币需求变动的关键。加拿大的货币需求与其相关的经济因素之间的关系；加拿大货币供求与经济增长之间的关系。     

Righteousness and Profitableness: The Moral Choices of Contemporary Confucian Entrepreneurs

This paper explores the relationship of various trait emotions to the ethical choices of 189 college students who completed a managerial decision-making task as part of an in-basket exercise in a laboratory setting. Prior research regarding emotion influences on ethical decision-making and linkages between emotions and cognition informed hypotheses about how different types of emotions impact ethical choices. Findings supported our expectations that positive and negative emotions classified as active would be more strongly related to interpersonally-directed ethical choices than to organizationally-directed ones, and that passive emotions would be less related to ethical choices than active emotions. Implications for ethical decision-making research and organizational practices are discussed.