环境规制强度、产业结构升级与生态环境优化的互动机制分析

实现产业结构升级与生态环境优化二者间的良性互动，对促进中国经济由高速增长阶段向高质量发展阶段转化至关重要。基于我国30个省份2003-2016年环境规制、产业结构与生态环境的面板数据，应用三阶段最小二乘法，实证检验环境规制强度、产业结构升级与生态环境优化三者之间的互动机制。研究发现：在全国层面，产业结构升级在促进生态环境优化的同时，弱化了环境规制强度；环境规制具有"倒逼"机制，在促进我国产业结构升级的同时，也能促进生态环境优化；分区域看，产业结构升级均有利于区域生态环境优化，但受资源禀赋等异质性因素的影响，环境规制强度、产业结构升级与生态环境优化之间的互动机制存在差异。发挥环境规制的功能性作用，落实创新驱动发展战略，推动区域协调发展，是实现产业结构升级与生态环境优化的可行性路径。     

计量工具在横向兼并反垄断审查中的应用——以美国Staple—Office Depot合并案为例

计量经济学的产生与发展使经济学由定性分析走向定量分析,在反垄断执法中企业是否滥用市场支配地位、经营者集中审查等内容都离不开计量工具的支持。反垄断部门在对企业横向兼并进行审查控制时包括了定义相关市场的定义、评估兼并的价格效应和预测兼并可能带来的效率改进,其中所进行的每一步都会运用到计量经济学。文章对计量工具在反垄断审查中的应用进行归纳总结,取其一点以案例法强调计量工具的应用。以美国Staples—Office Depot合并案为例,介绍计量方法在横向兼并审查控制中的具体运用,总结得出中国反垄断执法需要在数据收集、人才培养、案例研究等方面继续加强。     

基于低碳经济的税制改革思考

低碳经济作为一种经济发展模式,是我国转变经济发展方式的必然选择。税收是政府促进低碳经济发展的重要工具。针对我国现行税制体系中仅有低碳经济相关税种及税收优惠政策,尚缺乏低碳经济专有税种的现状,应建立以环境税和碳税为主体,以资源税、消费税等相关税种及低碳税收优惠政策为辅助的低碳税制体系。     

MIPS, QUIPS AND TOPrS: OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLES

Monthly Income Preferred Stock (MIPS), Quarterly Income Preferred Stock (QUIPS), and Trust Originated Preferred Stock (TOPrS) all carry the title of preferred stock. As in the case of other forms of preferred stock, investors cannot force the issuer into bankruptcy if it fails to make a scheduled dividend payment. Unlike conventional preferred stock, however, the dividend payments on these new securities are deductible by the issuer for tax purposes. Thus MIPS, QUIPS and TOPrS appear to provide issuers with in some respects the ideal security–one that offers the tax advantages of debt without the potential for financial distress and its associated costs. And since the first issue of this kind of security in 1993, nearly 300 corporate issuers have raised a total of close to $30 billion with this novel hybrid security. But if these securities appear new, there is another security–namely, income bonds–that has offered these same advantages for at least the past 100 years. After discussing MIPS, QUIPS, and TOPrS in some detail, and the stock market's reaction issuing companies, the article explores the question: Why are tax-deductible preferreds so popular today when income bonds have been shunned for the past 60 years?     

化工区循环经济推进效果的测度研究

石油化学业往往采用基地化的集群发展模式,因此化工区就成为我国循环经济推进的重要领域.文章以了解现状、监测变化、优化决策为目标,从创新环境、基础设施建设、企业运行、经济效益四个层面,分析了化工园区循环经济的推进效果,突出公共服务、检查监督、安全保障在化工区循环经济推进中的重要作用;基于此,从经济运行、公共服务、检查监督、安全保障等八个方面设置指标,建立循环经济效果度量指标体系.     

产业集聚程度与出口规模的实证研究——基于2000-2011年江苏省纺织产业的数据

江苏省纺织产业主要以集群形式发展,且其出口规模增长迅速。本文首先综述前人对两者关系研究的相关文献。接着,利用2000-2011年相关统计数据,计算江苏省纺织产业的区位熵,实证分析了江苏省纺织产业的集聚程度现象与其出口贸易之间的内在关系。计量结果表明,江苏省纺织产业的产业集聚与出口贸易之间存在着长期稳定的均衡关系,且产业集聚度的提高有效地促进了出口贸易的增长。最后对江苏省纺织产业集群与对外贸易的发展提出相应的对策建议。     

CAN A SUCCESSFUL COMPANY EXPECT TO INCREASE ITS SHARE PRICE? A CLARIFICATION OF A COMMON MISCONCEPTION

It is probably fair to say that several corporate problems can be attributed to the widespread misconception that companies can expect to increase their share price in real terms.     

Political patronage and firm performance: Further evidence from Malaysia

This paper investigates the characteristics, performance, and share price reaction of politically connected firms versus a control sample of independent firms in Malaysia. Politically connected firms had higher level of leverage, lower profitability, and lower sales to profitability, and paid lower taxes and lower dividends compared to independent firms. Their share prices increase with the announcement of favorable political events. In terms of performance, the active rent‐seeking activities in return for preferential treatment produce comparable performance to independent firms during an economic upturn. However, their performance deteriorates more than independent firms during an economic downturn. The percentage of ownership of government institutions in politically connected firms is also much lower, and these firms use more Tier 1 auditors than the independent firms. Overall, the findings are consistent with expectations and evidence from similar studies in developed and developing economies. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

THE PROMISE OF REAL OPTIONS

In recent years, both practitioners and academics have argued that traditional discounted cash flow models do a poor job of capturing the value of the options embedded in many corporate actions. This paper shows how option pricing models used in valuing financial assets can be used to value three kinds of real options that are often built into corporate projects: the option to delay, the option to expand, and the option to abandon. As a number of examples in this paper suggest, corporate investments that would be rejected using conventional DCF analysis can sometimes be justified by the value of the strategic options they provide. As the illustrations also show, however, the pricing of real options is considerably more difficult than the pricing of financial options and adjustments must often be made to capture the complexity of real investments.