Teaching Ethics in International Business Courses: The Impacts of Religions

Implicit in most comparative ethical studies is the assumption that cultural and religious differences between countries are the major reasons behind the variations in ethical beliefs and business practice across nations. This article examines research on the international ethical issues and the common moral concerns that permeate differing religious and philosophical perspectives—not only Judaism and Christianity, but also Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism with emphasis on the Golden Rule. Many commonalities were found. The authors suggest that students (and practitioners) should understand the basic tenets of the major religions and their implications on international business ethics because of the apparent failure of current philosophical approaches.     

论英语课堂教学中影响学生注意力的因素

高职院校学生注意力分散的情况时有发生,通过对学生的访谈和对问卷数据的分析,发现教师要提高学生的课堂注意力,不仅要正确看待注意力分散的现象,还要了解其原因,充分利用学生注意力集中的时间,合理安排好课堂内容,建立良好的师生关系,调控学生的注意力,发挥学生的学习自主性,同时还需要课堂活动内容的多样化以及良好的教学环境和条件的保障.     

湖南省靖州县股份合作林场发展历程及其启示

总结了靖州县股份合作林场发展历程,将其归纳为探索设立、完善和衰退3个阶段,并分析了3个阶段各自产生的原因,指出自主经营是前提,经济盈利是根本,政府扶持是保障,制度完善是保证,能人治理是林业专业合作组织设立与发展的关键因素。     

国外减少汽车出行的政策与措施

基于减少汽车出行的政策分类及交通管理的软措施机理,回顾了澳大利亚、英国、日本三国的软交通政策及其减少汽车出行的实践,并分析了三国的共同举措。结合中国的交通发展趋势,认为发展绿色交通是中国未来交通发展的必然趋势。基于对三国交通政策实践的分析,针对中国促进绿色出行的交通政策导向需求,总结了四项具有借鉴意义的启示。     

全球证券交易所并购风潮及对我国的启示

文章针对危机后全球出现的新一轮证券交易所并购浪潮，分析了本轮交易所并购风潮的特点，认为主要包括追求规模效应的内部驱动力、大国经济博弈的外部推动力，及资本流动需求的客观要求等。文章随后分析了本轮证交所全球并购对交易所业务的影响和对中国交易所发展的启示，指出需提升对资本市场发展重要性的认识和危机意识，应重点增进大中华地区资本市场的合作等。     

Welfare Implications of Non‐scale R&D‐based Growth Models

Non‐scale R&D‐based growth models imply that the decentral and the socially optimal long‐run growth rate coincide. Nonetheless, the distortions inherent in a market economy bias both the R&D investment share and the saving rate. As a result, the level of the balanced growth path may differ substantially between the two types of solution, implying a dramatic loss in welfare. The present paper explores the sources and magnitude of this gap. In addition, the consequences of public policies are examined, distinguishing between isolated policy measures from an overall policy programme.     

Factors Determining Citizen’s Attitudes Towards Agri-Environmental Property Rights

The purpose of this paper is to contribute further insights into individuals’ agri-environmental attitudes. In particular, the empirical analysis focuses on how citizens think agri-environmental property rights should be assigned. This has been done by surveying how individuals consider the environmental policy should promote the implementation of a group of agri-environmental measures, allowing us to examine the determinants of individuals’ opinions about this matter. Results indicate that higher level of income and education support the implementation of obligatory agri-environmental measures with no financial support (property rights should rest on society) except for measures to improve public access to land for leisure activities and ecological farming which are seen more of the voluntary kind (property rights should rest on farmers). Additionally, rural residency has strong significant effect on agri-environmental attitudes as rural residents are more likely to support the implementation of voluntary (with/without financial support) agri-environmental measures. On the whole, this research proves to be a valuable tool to identify factors determining individuals’ attitudes towards agri-environmental property rights which can certainly help policymakers to provide customized, better response to social demands on this matter.     

国外信用评级监管法律框架概述及启示

信用评级机构在次贷危机之后引发全球经济金融市场乃至政界高度关注,成为各国金融改革的重点对象.美国、欧盟以及日本等多个国家纷纷出台法规针对评级监管法律体系作进一步完善,全面加强对评级机构监管.我国评级行业起步较晚,由于发展阶段和市场环境等因素所限,相关监管立法仍存在诸多亟待完善之处.以评级监管立法改革领域的典型——美国、欧盟为研究对象,通过系统梳理这些国家和地区的信用评级监管法律制度框架的演变历程及现状,并对我国相关立法现状进行分析,进而对我国信用评级法律框架的搭建完善提出政策建议.     

Sources of Systematic Risk in Futures and Spot Markets: A Study of Market Integration

This article explains the implications of asset market integration for the decision making process of market participants and tests the integration between futures and spot markets. Integration is investigated with respect to the hypothesis that the sources of systematic risk in futures and spot markets command identical risk premia. While the futures and the spot markets for currencies and equities are integrated, we present new evidence that the futures and commodity spot markets are segmented. Such results are of primary importance to investors who use asset pricing models to adjust the risk-return trade-off of their portfolio and evaluate portfolio performance.     

Testable implications of subjective expected utility theory

I show that the predictive content of the hypothesis of subjective expected utility maximization critically depends on what the analyst knows about the details of the problem a particular decision maker faces. When the analyst does not know anything about the agent's payoffs or beliefs and can only observe the sequence of actions taken by the decision maker any arbitrary sequence of actions can be implemented as the choice of an agent that solves some intertemporal utility maximization problem under uncertainty.