Researching Preferences,Valuation and Hypothetical Bias

A number of recent papers in environmental economics have focused on the process of researching preferences – agents are uncertain about preferences but with effort may narrow their uncertainty. This issue has arisen in formulating bids in contingent valuation (CV) as well as the debate over the divergence between WTP and WTA. In the context of CV, it has been suggested that the hypothetical nature of the preference elicitation process biases responses. This paper provides both a theoretical model and experimental evidence to contribute to this debate. The model is a model of competitive bidding for a private good with two components that are particularly relevant to the debate. The first component is that bidders are unsure of their own value for the private good but may purchase information about their own value (researching preferences). The second component is that there is a probability that the auction is hypothetical – that the winning bidder will not get the private good and will not pay the winning bid. The experiment tests this theoretical model of bidding equilibrium and analyzes the effects of variations in the parameters (hypotheticalness, information costs and number of agents) on the endogenous variables (such as the proportion of bidders who become informed and the winning bid). Experimental results suggest that an increase in the hypotheticalness of an auction tends to decrease the likelihood that bidders pay for information on their valuation with an ambiguous effect on the winning bid.      

关于经济学根本范式的讨论——与经济学技术关系论者商榷

关于经济学分析范式的纯理论争论，不外乎是两种分析方法的对立。一种是古典传统剩余理论的“社会关系”分析，另一种是新古典传统供求理论的“技术关系”分析。马克思经济学坚持的是由特定的社会经济关系所决定的竞争及其博弈规则的理论，是以货币量值计量的，与后凯恩斯主流经济学的生产函数的技术关系分析无关，并从资本存量与收入流量的联系中讨论经济稳定增长状态及其波动的分析框架。     

论企业核心竞争力的文化根基

企业核心竞争力是最近几年来影响较大也是很重要的一个企业战略管理概念。文章从企业文化、创新、信息化建设、品牌、人才战略、价值观和企业理念等方面探讨企业核心竞争力形成的文化根源。     

农民工子女社会适应状况的障碍分析及对策

进城农民工人口数量的不断增长以及流动方式的变化,催生了农民工子女群体的产生。我国二元社会结构下形成的各种障碍性因素对进城农民工及其子女在生活、就学、就业等方面起着限制、排斥等消极作用。改善进城农民工子女社会适应状况要从改革不合理的制度和政策,改变造成农民工子女不良适应的非制度因素影响,提高和改善农民工及其子女的个人素质等方面努力去做。     

从价值链到价值群的战略思维转变研究

曾经让企业发现竞争优势的价值链,如今变成了企业发展的绊脚石,束缚着企业管理者重构新的商业模式。在价值链的基础上设计价值群模型,对价值链进行破坏性创新,不破不立;当价值链已经成为企业发展的绊脚石时,对价值链的破坏,从原来的固定链式思维解脱出来,进入一种空间的立体结构运作模式已经成为不争的方向。价值群以其优于价值链的特征更适合现代商业环境的需要。     

社会审计委托代理分析

本文分析了社会审计契约中委托代理关系及审计信息不对称表现及形成原因,通过建立社会审计的委托代理模型,揭示了在审计人和委托人均完全理性的假设下,委托人可以通过激励机制鼓励审计人尽最大努力完成工作。在此基础上分析了我国社会审计收费制度的不合理性、转轨经济环境下社会审计合约具有的不完全契约特性,并提出了改革的设想。     

社会资本发展对企业财务的影响分析

社会资本理论于80年代晚期才引起理论界的广泛关注,此后又引入企业社会资本概念。社会资本的积累直接关系到企业的生存与发展,本文将社会资本理论应用于财务领域,从收益和风险两方面探讨了企业投资于社会资本应考虑的问题,为企业有目的地构建社会资本做初步分析。     

关于社会责任会计的辨析

随着许多社会问题越来越严重,人们要求企业在追求微观利益的同时,也要承担相应的社会责任。社会责任会计应运而生,并成为会计关注的热点问题。本文主要对社会责任会计与传统企业会计、社会会计、责任会计和环境会计之间的关系进行分析,以期为更准确的理解社会责任会计提供参考。     

The Effects of Auditor Social and Human Capital on Auditor Compensation: Evidence from the Italian Small Audit Firm Market

Abstract

This study examines whether social and human capital influence the compensation of individual auditors in the small audit firm market. We employ a sample of Italian auditors and use measures from the network and auditing literatures to capture their professional connections, representing social capital, and their industry expertise, representing human capital. Our findings show a positive and economically meaningful association between these individual attributes and auditor compensation. We run several tests to address potential endogeneity issues in our research design. Our results suggest that, in the small audit market, clients perceive as valuable those auditors with higher social and human capital, and as a result, are willing to pay a premium for these specific auditor attributes.     

投入产出表和社会核算矩阵更新研究评述

本文对投入产出(IO)表和社会核算矩阵(SAM)更新方法进行了归类和比较评述。主要观点:第一,已有的IO表或SAM更新方法主要分为统计学方法、优化法和宏观经济学分析方法;第二,以现代经济学为基础的更新技术应引起高度重视;第三,在非普查年份,统计部门应制度化地开展重点IO系数调查,并将相关数据及时公开化;第四,在实际操作中应正确认识更新中已知信息的地位,并注意更新中的保号性问题。