Do Lenders Value Corporate Social Responsibility? Evidence from China

Drawing on risk mitigation theory, this article examines whether the improvement of firms’ social performance reduces debt financing costs (CDFs) in China, the world’s largest emerging market. Employing both the ordinary least square (OLS) and the two-stage instrumental variable regression methods, we find that improved corporate social responsibility (CSR) reduces the CDF when firms’ CSR investment is lower than an optimal level; however, this relationship is reversed after the CSR investment exceeds the optimal level. Firms with extremely low or extremely high CSR are subject to a higher CDF. The results also suggest that the optimal CSR level for small firms is higher than that for large firms. This study is the first to document a U-shaped relationship between CSR and CDF and also the first to investigate this relationship within an emerging market context.     

The advantage of experienced start-up founders in venture capital acquisition: evidence from serial entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs with prior firm-founding experience are expected to have more skills and social connections than novice entrepreneurs. Such skills and social connections could give experienced founders some advantage in the process of raising venture capital. This paper uses a large database of venture-backed companies and their founders to examine the advantage associated with prior founding experience. Compared with novice entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs with venture-backed founding experience tend to raise more venture capital at an early round of financing and tend to complete the early round much more quickly. In contrast, experienced founders whose earlier firms were not venture-backed do not show a similar advantage over novice entrepreneurs, suggesting the importance of connections with venture capitalists in the early stage of venture capital financing. However, when the analysis also takes into account later rounds of financing, all entrepreneurs with prior founding experience appear to raise more venture capital. This implies that skills acquired from any previous founding experience can make an entrepreneur perform better and in turn attract more venture capital.     

浅析经济危机下的企业财务管理变革

本文就金融危机背景下中小企业财务管理存在的问题进行了分析,从加强现金预算管理、严格控制成本费用、优化筹资渠道、加强财务控制、降低投资风险等方面提出了建议.     

契约执行效率与垂直化结构

本文在LuigiPascali分析框架的基础上构建了一个两部门垄断竞争模型,考察不完全契约与垂直化结构的关系,并利用中国分地区分行业数据进行了检验。分析结果表明：契约执行效率的提高有利于垂直专业化分工;在契约要素密集度和物质资产专用性高的行业,契约执行效率与垂直一体化存在着明显的负向关系,在控制其他变量以及内生性问题后,这一结果仍然稳健;契约执行效率对人力资产专用性行业的治理结构影响不大。     

南京市老住宅小区物业管理现状调查及对策研究

老住宅小区如何引入现代物业管理,这是全国各大中城市面临的难题.本文通过文献收集、实地走访等方式,对南京市老住宅小区管理情况以及居民对物业管理的态度进行了调查分析,综合考虑老小区房屋老化、配套不足、产权多样化、居民消费观念陈旧等特点,提出了南京市老住宅小区实施物业管理的总体思路和对策建议.     

财政支出结构、人力资本积累与经济增长

本文通过构建四部门模型,分析了财政支出结构与人力资本积累对经济增长的作用,研究发现：财政支出结构对经济增长的作用是不确定的,依据公共支出与生产性支出之间的不同比例关系而异;人力资本对于经济增长的作用是不确定的,依人力资本存量存量是否达到一定的临界条件而异,而这一作用的大小受制于教育资金中政府投入比重与财政支出中公共支出比重;基础设施投资与公共卫生支出能促进经济增长,但这一正向效应的大小受制于财政支出中公共支出的比重;政府教育投资有助于经济增长,这一作用的大小与教育投资回报率密切相关。     

环境规制对企业生产率有好处吗？——来自企业层面数据的证据

利用2006年1000多家中国企业的调查数据,采用最小二乘法和Tobit模型实证研究了环境规制对企业生产率的影响及机制。结果表明环境规制本身与企业生产率之间存在着稳定、显著的正向关系;环境规制强度与企业生产率之间也存在着稳定、显著的正向关系;不同规模和不同地理位置的企业其生产率呈现不同的表现,企业对环境成本上升带来的消化能力有差异。经过稳健性检验,研究结论也依然成立。     

财政支出与产业结构的关系研究——基于协整分析和误差修正模型

通过运用单位根检验、协整检验、格兰杰因果检验及误差修正模型等经济计量分析方法,分析了1978—2009年中国财政支出和产业结构系数之间的关系,得出结论：财政支出和产业结构系数之间存在长期均衡关系和单向的因果关系;误差修正项对财政支出与产业结构系数之间的长期均衡具有调节作用,但这种调节力度比较弱。     

重庆市环城游憩带旅游资源特色与开发定位研究

通过对重庆旅游资源特色进行定位分析,发现其游憩带内自然与人文资源融合度好;形态组合多样化;资源呈现链式分布和组团分布特色;总体特性自然淳厚,奇趣温馨,开发价值大。因此定位游憩主题、形象、产品、市场,实现重庆都市区游憩业的可持续发展。     

信息不对称条件下的中国民营企业技术创新

在非对称信息背景下,建立了一个潜在者和在位者的竞争模型。在不确定条件下,相比潜在进入者,在位的垄断者有减少R＆D投资的动机,所以,潜在者将通过高于在位垄断者的技术创新投入进入垄断市场。通过应用数据包络分析测度国有及国有控股工业企业和民营企业的技术创新效率,表明中国民营企业将技术创新作为市场进入的重要手段。