我国个人信息权保护现状及体系建构探究——基于网络侵权语境的分析

伴随互联网和信息社会的飞速发展,网络侵权现象愈加增多,个人信息权愈加脆弱,首要问题在于个人信息权在民事基本权利中的缺位,其次是法律制度缺陷及行业自律的滞后。在梳理评价我国当前个人信息权保护现状基础上,明确个人信息权的法律地位、推进《个人信息保护法》立法进程、重视特殊领域个人信息权保护、弥补刑法保护漏洞和构建于法律适应之配套制度将是应对形势发展的上策。     

后金融危机时代农民工权益贫困化与出路的深层次思考

后金融危机时代农民工权益贫困化问题凸现,其实质是合法权益实现的贫困化。用权力行为的公正维护农民工合法财产权益,体现制度优越性;用劳动的正义捍卫体面劳动,实现劳动权益的合法性;用人权的神圣捍卫农民工自我发展权,体现和谐社会"以人为本"的价值理念。这需要在机制改革、制度建设与政策调整上的政治共识和政治智慧。     

股市波动对股市募资的影响——基于VAR模型实证分析

本文选取1991年8月至2010年7月一级市场实际募集资金、上证指数及深成指的月度数据作为样本,运用向量自回归(VAR)模型、格兰杰因果关系检验、脉冲响应分析及方差分解方法分析股市波动与股市募资的关系,实证分析表明:股市波动是股市募资的原因,其中深成指对股市募资的影响较大;股市募资对股市波动短期有强劲的响应,在长期趋于稳定;股价指数和股市募资存在长期均衡关系。并且在定量分析和定性分析相结合的基础上给出相应的对策建议。     

关于《中华人民共和国食品安全法》实施情况的调查报告

食品安全问题不仅事关广大人民群众的身体健康和生命安全,对经济发展和社会和谐稳定也是举足轻重的大事。2009年6月1日起正式实施的《中华人民共和国食品安全法》对于依法加强食品安全管理、确保公众饮食安全发挥着至关重要的作用。本文在对《食品安全法》及其相关法律制度简析的基础上,总结了其实施以来的成效,并对其不足之处及相关对策进行了分析探讨。     

An Empirical Analysis of the Demand for Imports in Three CARICOM Member Countries: An Application of the Bounds Test for Cointegration

This paper provides fresh estimates of income and price elasticities of import demand in Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago using a bounds test for cointegration. In addition, the paper also provides estimates of the consumption, investment, and exports elasticities of import demand. These latter elasticities were all found to be positive and statistically significant with values ranging from 0.16 to 0.55 in the long-run.     

The Valuation Effect of Accounting Standard 158 on Firms with High and Low Financial Risk

SFAS 158 mandated balance sheet disclosure of the funded status of firms’ Defined Benefit Pension Plan using the Projected Benefit Obligation (PBO) to estimate the pension liability. SFAS 158 caused a market phenomenon because the use of the PBO engendered dramatically higher estimates of pension liability and hence the perception of risk. Our work focuses on two aspects of this change in pension accounting: first, how will industry firms change their accounting strategy in light of the new rules, and second, how will firms’ stock prices be affected by the new allegedly better estimate of pension liability? Our research suggests that firms’ accounting strategies changed in that they use higher discount rates to estimate pension liability which offset the dramatic impact of using the PBO. In addition, we find that high financial risk firms’ tendencies to use higher discount rates increase with the firms’ leverage and decrease with liquidity. To test the market reaction we utilize standard event study methodology to investigate the effects of SFAS 158 on stock returns. Our findings suggest that firms with high (low) financial risk earn negative (positive) abnormal returns on and around relevant event dates preceding the implementation of SFAS 158.     

Small and Medium Enterprise Financing in Transition Economies

This paper studies the financing status of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in transition economies. Factors causing financing obstacles are indentified and further analyzed to determine their influence over financing patterns. Bank regulatory practices relevant to SMEs’ access to bank loans and their influence over loan structures are identified. This study contributes to the existing body of knowledge by exploring the impact of specific bank regulatory practices on credit lending to SMEs in transition economies.     

Financial Globalization and Banking Crises in Emerging Markets

Bank crises in emerging economies have been a feature of the recent global crisis, and their incidence has increased in the post-Bretton Woods era. This paper investigates the impact of financial globalization on the incidence of systemic bank crises in 20 emerging markets over the years 1976–2002 using measures of de facto and de jure financial openness. An increase in foreign debt liabilities contributes to an increase in the incidence of crises, but foreign direct investment and portfolio equity liabilities have the opposite effect. A more liberal de jure capital regime lowers the incidence of banking crises, while a regime of fixed exchange rates increases their frequency. The results of the econometric analysis is consistent with the experience of East European and central Asian emerging markets, which attracted a relatively large proportion of capital flows in the form of debt in recent years and have been particularly hard hit by the global financial crisis.     

Inflation and Welfare in Latin America

This paper follows Bailey (J Polit Econ 64:93–110, 1956) and Lucas (Econometrica 68:247–274, 2000) and estimates the welfare cost of inflation for 17 Latin American economies. We use annual data, from 1955 to 2000, and recent advances in the field of applied econometrics to estimate the inflation rate elasticity of money demand and report significantly high and differential welfare cost estimates for these economies.