The Financial and Operational Impacts of FERC Order 636 on the Interstate Natural Gas Pipeline Industry

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Order 636 fundamentally altered the regulatory and operational environment of the natural gas industry in 1992, as the culmination of several directives aimed at relaxing regulation and fostering competition. We hypothesize that gas pipeline firms subsequently changed their operational and financial behavior in ways consistent with reduced balkanization, increased competition, and reduced expense preference behavior. Our results indicate that these firms have become more homogeneous financially but less so operationally. We find evidence that the marginal profitability of various pipeline activities has responded more to financial market conditions than to the regulatory environment.     

我国外资企业避税问题分析

外资企业进入我国,给我国的经济带来了活力,推动了我国的经济增长。但与此同时,也在我国谋取了大量税收利益。本文通过对外资企业在我国避税特点的分析,指出其进行逆向避税的不同动机,并重点分析了外资企业在税务筹划中所采取的各种避税手段,为我国反避税工作的开展提供借鉴参考。     

基于现有法律框架下建设工程监理安全责任对策

根据现有法律法规,归纳了建设工程监理安全责任的法律规定,对安全责任性质进行分析,指出现有法律法规的协调性、安全监理的深度、安全审查、监理费用等方面存在的问题,并从国家宏观管理和监理单位微观对策方面提出建议。     

金融业统一监管的成本与收益分析

近年来一些国家相继实行了金融业统一监管,业界对此存在着不同看法,一些人主张进行金融业的统一监管,即将所有的监管机构统一到一个组织结构进行统一监管,而另一些人则对此持反对意见,主张继续实行多边监管,即分业监管。文章试图从统一监管成本与收益的角度来分析金融业实行统一监管的可行性。     

Moral suasion: An alternative tax policy strategy? Evidence from a controlled field experiment in Switzerland

With data gained from a controlled field experiment in Switzerland this paper analyses the effects of moral suasion on the timely paying and the timely filling out of the tax form 2001. Comparisons of different tax filing years and multiple regression estimations have been done using these two factors as dependent variables to check if there is a significant difference between the control group and the treatment group. In February 2002 the treatment group received a letter signed by the communes fiscal commissioner containing normative appeals. Results indicate that moral suasion has hardly any effect on taxpayers compliance behaviour. The strongest effect can be observed for the variable tax payments.Received: February 2003, Accepted: June 2004 JEL Classification: H260, H710BennoTorgler: Special thanks are due to the tax administration of Trimbach, especially to Adolf Müller and Gary Bitterli, who offered me the opportunity to collect the data and assisted the project. Furthermore I acknowledge the financial support of the WWZ-Forum and Swiss National Science Foundation and comments and suggestions from Doris Aebi, René L. Frey, the editor Kai A. Konrad and two anonymous referees.     

上市公司违规及证券市场监管的研究综述

介绍了国内外关于上市公司违规以及证券市场监管的研究进展,揭示了建立包含有效的监管手段的外部监管机制以及建立以合理的公司治理结构为基础的内部公司约束机制的重要性,为规范上市公司行为提供了思路。     

论饭店核心竞争力的培育

在激烈的市场竞争态势下,饭店企业只有走出对核心竞争力的认识误区,通过正确的途径培育核心竞争力,才能真正建立自己的核心竞争优势。文章在分析目前饭店核心竞争力的认识误区基础上,提出了从科学高效地配置资源、创新产品和服务、提升饭店企业培育文化3方面培育饭店核心竞争力。     

中国城市居住分异的制度成因及其调控——基于住房供给的视角

从住房制度、土地制度、税收制度等方面分析了加剧中国城市居住分异的制度性因素,并通过对国外及香港地区相关制度的分析,提出了对我国城市居住分异进行制度性调控的建议,即一方面要运用经济手段对住房市场进行干预和调节,另一方面要完善现有的住房供应制度,坚持住房有分异,分异有尺度,以利于社会的和谐发展.     

英国城市的无障碍环境建设

随着残疾人问题的日益突出 ,英国对城市无障碍环境建设问题日渐重视。本文介绍了英国无障碍环境建设的有关立法、建筑规范、规划政策、规划控制与建筑控制的比较以及公众参与的情况     

Short sellers and insider trading profitability: A natural experiment

We examine the impact of short sellers on insider trading profitability using a natural experiment of a pilot program which relaxed short-selling constraints for randomly selected pilot stocks. We find that pilot firms experienced a significant decrease in insider trading profitability during the pilot program. The results are more pronounced for the pilot firms with poor information quality, and for the pilot firms without corporate restrictions on insider trading. Our evidence suggests that short sellers serve an important market disciplinary role by reducing insider trading profitability.