The capital structure of multinational companies under tax competition

This article studies the relation between debt policies of multinational companies (MNCs) and governments’ tax strategies. In the first part, we show that the ability to shift income from high- to low-tax countries affects MNCs’ financial choices. In the second part we show how MNCs’ financial decisions can affect the tax strategies of two governments competing to attract income.      

融资融券业务个人客户违约概率计量研究

伴随股市波动加剧,证券公司融资融券业务信用风险形势日趋严峻。违约概率被用于客户准入管理、风险定价与信贷组合管理等多个方面,处于信用风险管理的基础性地位。本文使用Probit、Logistic与Extreme Value模型,讨论融资融券业务个人客户的违约概率计量。在融资融券业务开展时间较短、数据积累与整理工作尚不完善的情况下,本文重点使用信用账户的资产负债结构信息计量违约概率,并从模型准确性与拟合性的角度,使用ROC曲线与Brier评分方法对三种模型进行比较与验证。研究结果表明:三种模型均具有较强的区分能力,但Extreme Value模型准确性最强,拟合效果最好,最适合于计量融资融券业务的违约概率。     

多源程序公平气氛影响个体创造力的跨层次效应

从来源角度探讨组织公平,是对现有多维度公平理论框架的重要补充。基于动机理论中的自我决定理论,以来自20个组织55个团队的250份团队领导与成员配对问卷为样本,探索中国情境下多源程序公平气氛对个体创造力的跨层次影响及作用机理。研究结果显示:不同来源（来源于领导和来源于组织）的程序公平气氛均对个体创造力有显著正向影响;心理授权在来源于领导的程序公平气氛和来源于组织的程序公平气氛对个体创造力的跨层次影响中均发挥中介作用;权力距离在来源于组织的程序公平气氛与员工心理授权的关系间起调节作用,即权力距离越高,来源于组织的程序公平气氛对员工心理授权的影响越强。     

重庆市制造业的绿色经济增长核算：2001—2010

基于生产前沿理论的绿色经济增长核算模型,不仅将技术无效率和环境代价纳入了分析框架,而且还与“物质平衡思路”一致;该模型将绿色经济增长的源泉分解为环境约束下的技术进步、技术效率变化和资本深化3大部分.对重庆市27个制造行业的经验分析结论表明:经济增长中普遍存在着技术无效率现象,但50％以上行业的技术效率都得到了改善或维持不变;资本深化是经济增长的主要源泉,而技术进步主导的全要素生产率变动在其中的贡献相对较小;技术进步是引致全要素生产率增长的主要原因.为充分发挥重庆市制造业可持续发展潜力,后续发展中必须转变经济发展方式,在环境约束下走技术进步和技术效率改善的绿色全要素生产率增长之路.     

Place,space, and foreign direct investment into peripheral cities

Perspectives drawn from the economic geography literature are increasingly used to generate insights into locational issues in international business. In this paper, we seek to integrate these literatures further by investigating the locational determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) into peripheral cities within an emerging economy. Peripheral cities in emerging economies are attracting a growing proportion of global FDI flows, but the international business literature lacks a framework for understanding subnational determinants of FDI, particularly into non-core locations. We draw on the core-periphery model to build and test theory on how spatial interdependencies between subnational locations impact on the distribution of FDI inflows into a large and heterogeneous country China. Our results show that whilst peripheral cities tend to have a negative effect on FDI, this effect is positively moderated by proximity to core cities. The results highlight the importance of considering interactions between place and space when investigating locational issues in international business.     

Distance and government resource allocation: from the perspective of environmental information disclosure policy change

This article investigates the relationship between environmental information and government resources and focuses on the moderate effect of distance. The results show that (1) the promulgation and implementation of the Measures for the Disclosure of Environmental Information (MDEI) can improve the level and quality of environmental information and then increase resource allocation and (2), after the MDEI are issued, distance has a significant negative moderate effect on the positive impact of MDEI, and the negative moderate effect of distance is more significant in low GDP and marketization regions, high-polluting industries and firms audited by the non-Big 4 accounting firms.     

It's easier to contract than to pay: Judicial independence and US municipal default in the 19th century

It is well established in the literature that an independent judiciary can act as a signal of credibility by a sovereign state and as a guarantor of creditor rights. However, to date there has been little systematic work analyzing how an independent judiciary reacts to fiscal stress and public-sector default. This article addresses that very question by evaluating how and if judicial independence affects default rates using US municipal data through the nineteenth century. Overall, the results do indicate that greater judicial independence is associated with a significantly lower likelihood of default. This channel largely occurs through the method by which a member of a state's court of last resort is selected (either appointment or popular election) and term length.     

劳动投资效率、企业性质与资产收益率

基于中国信用债券市场的近期违约事件,本文研究发现:涉事评级机构不仅没有因为涉及债券违约事件而收紧信用评级标准,反而更加高估企业的信用评级水平,并且涉及的债券违约事件越多,高估信用评级的程度越大。但投资者通过“用脚投票”方式惩罚了涉事评级机构,导致其市场份额相对于非涉事评级机构出现显著下降或者增长较低的态势,同时涉事评级机构的信用评级意见对于降低企业融资成本的作用显著降低。     

科技人才集聚对中国区域科技创新效率的影响

基于2005-2015年省际面板数据,构建超越对数随机前沿距离函数模型,借鉴产业区位熵思想,研究科技人才集聚对中国区域科技创新效率的影响。结果表明,科技创新效率存在区域差异,东部地区高于中部、西部、东北地区,西部最低;科技人才集聚规模和均衡度与区域科技创新效率显著正相关,强度与区域科技创新效率显著负相关。鉴于此,为提高区域科技创新效率、缩小区域差异,我国政府应全方位培育并吸引科技人才,合理引导科技人才流动、整合科技人才资源。     

文化距离和国际直接投资流向：S型曲线假说

文化距离和国际直接投资流向的关系一直是学术界研究的热点问题,并且存在着“文化距离悖论”。本文在文化距离所产生的“外来者劣势”和“外来者收益”的基础上建立了新的理论框架,以此来分析文化距离和国际直接投资流向之间的复杂非线性关系。1993-2006年49个世界重要经济体在29个OECD成员国的国际直接投资数据表明,文化距离和国际直接投资流向之间存在着水平S型曲线关系。这一研究结果能够较好地解释文化距离和国际直接投资流向之间的“文化距离悖论”。