领导干部自然资源资产离任审计与企业绿色并购——来自中国重污染型上市公司的经验证据

基于2011~2017年我国A股重污染型上市公司经验数据，实证检验了领导干部自然资源资产离任审计对企业绿色并购行为的影响，研究发现：领导干部自然资源资产离任审计可显著促进辖区内企业实施绿色并购；而当地区市场竞争程度越高时，越会抑制企业在领导干部自然资源资产离任审计试点实施背景下的绿色并购扩张行为；进一步地，企业绿色并购会显著提高企业价值，且这一影响对并购后当年的企业价值影响最为显著；基于异质性分析方面，领导干部自然资源资产离任审计会约束不同产权性质企业的环境治理行为，促进其采取绿色并购，实施绿色发展；同时领导干部自然资源资产离任审计会更有利于东部地区企业实施绿色并购，而对中西部地区的企业影响不明显。     

Here comes Generation Z: Millennials as managers

As the workplace continues to change, a new generational cohort—Generation Z, sometimes referred to as iGen—is beginning to enter the workforce. At the same time, millennials are now progressing in their careers and will be challenged with managing these incoming workers. The purpose of this article is to provide a contextual overview that identifies and illuminates some of the defining work-related characteristics of these two youngest generations in the workplace to increase understanding of the potential intergenerational conflict between these cohorts and develop leadership strategies that can be utilized to increase employee morale and productivity. This article analyzes the millennial supervisor-Gen Z subordinate relationship based on generational cohort theory, leader-member exchange (LMX) theory, and the work values framework.     

Life Course Perspective on Economic Shocks and Income Inequality Through Age-Period-Cohort Analysis: Evidence From Finland

Utilizing age-period-cohort analysis, this paper examines the development of income distribution across periodic economic fluctuations in relation to cohorts and age groups. The empirical analysis is based on the Finnish Income Distribution Statistics and Household Expenditure Surveys covering the period of 1966–2015. The findings suggest that the period and cohort effects can be identified as the main effects on relative income, while the age effects have no meaningful impact when the control variables are taken into account. This result reveals a connection between the effects of economic shocks and cohort placement on labor market entry. Additionally, absolute income analysis suggests that economic shocks create stagnation points in income development, which are especially detrimental to cohorts who are transitioning into labor markets. Additionally, middle-income attainment has not changed due to periodic shocks but rather is related to inter-cohort inequalities and relative income differences, where the baby boomer generation is a clear winner.     

A Stochastic Model with Penalized Coefficients for Spatial Price Comparisons: An Application to Regional Price Indexes in Italy

This paper focuses on a new strand of research that uses stochastic approach for making spatial price comparisons. We propose a novel method to account for the presence of spatial dependencies in consumer prices and consequently in price indexes by imposing penalization conditions on the estimation of traditional CPD models leading to the spatially-penalized country-product-dummy (SP-CPD) model. The paper proposes an appropriate estimation strategy, which enables us to simultaneously estimate all the parameters in the model, including the smoothing parameter of the penalization term instead of determining it externally. In order to estimate spatial price indexes for areas lacking in price data, we suggest applying the kriging methodology to the price indexes obtained from the SP-CPD model. This new approach is applied to official Italian CPI data for constructing regional spatial price indexes for 2014. The results show that price levels are higher in the Northern-Central regions than in the South.     

区域文化对市场经济环境形成的影响研究

区域文化对市场经济环境的形成具有重要的作用。在深入分析区域文化对市场经济环境形成作用机理的基础上,结合我国区域经济发展实际,从政治文化对政治体制变革的影响,经济文化对经济组织创新的影响,伦理文化对竞争环境建立的影响,以及宗教文化对科学意识培养的影响等四个方面,论述了区域文化对市场经济环境形成的作用路径,说明区域文化对市场环境的形成具有内源性的影响。     

国外先进地区区域创新发展的实践及启示

区域创新发展是当前引领经济发展的重要模式。区域创新发展的实践推动了区域创新理论研究的深入，并在更广大的范围内推动了区域发展实践。研究分析了美国硅谷、欧盟、日韩在区域创新发展方面的做法，并对促进区域创新发展提出建议。     

The effects of regional trade integration and renewable energy transition on environmental quality: Evidence from South Asian neighbors

Improving environmental quality across South Asia has become one of the utmost important policy agendas of the concerned governments. The susceptibility of the majority of the South Asian countries to multifaceted climate change adversities has motivated the need to identify the factors that can function to ensure environmental sustainability across South Asia. Although several studies have highlighted the importance of globalization and cleaner energy use in tackling the environmental degradaton issues of the South Asian countries, very little is known regarding the impacts of regional trade and renewable energy transition in this regard. Hence, this paper aims to scrutinize the effects of enhancing intra-regional trade integration and undergoing renewable energy transition on per capita carbon dioxide emissions in the context of six South Asian nations between 1990 and 2016. The results from the recently developed cross-sectionally augmented autoregressive distributed lag regression approach, accounting for cross-sectional dependency and slope heterogeneity issues, reveal that facilitating trade among the South Asian neighbors reduces carbon emissions in both the short and long run. Moreover, enhancing the share of renewable energy in the aggregate energy consumption figures is also found to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in both the short and long run. Furthermore, both regional trade integration and renewable energy transition are found to jointly reduce carbon dioxide emissions in South Asia. The results also authenticate the existence of the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis, while financial development and urbanization are found to boost carbon dioxide emissions only in the long run.     

风景的人文化进程——桂林山水园林审美 历程之解读

园林作为一种文化载体，其美学思想的演变过程既 是社会形态演变的外化，也是历史阶段人与自然关系的折射。 从风景园林史学与美学的双重视角，解读桂林山水园林的审美 历程。研究发现，桂林山水园林审美文化的发展可划分为寻形 赋情、重理塑神和意蕴相生3个阶段，发展过程具有渐进性、 层累性，是人文性和艺术性不断递进的过程。其园林审美特质 表现为以自然为本源、整体的环境观和丰富的审美联想。研究 为桂林园林文化的传承发展及当代城市风景建设提供一定的理 论支持，并对岭南风景园林史的完善具有推进意义。     

长江经济带土地出让与城镇化质量耦合协调研究

土地出让与城镇化质量作为城镇化的主要依托和核心追求,二者的关系影响到城市的可持续发展。以长江经济带为例,构建土地出让与城镇化质量综合评价指标体系,利用熵值法和耦合协调模型对二者耦合协调的时空差异做出实证研究,并利用ArcGIS将其空间显化。结果表明：研究期内长江经济带土地出让与城镇化质量的协调度呈现先增后减再增趋势；二者的协调度自西向东逐步增加,耦合度无明显分布规律,总体呈高水平耦合状态；土地出让与城镇化质量的协调度在城市群间的差异显著,但城市群内部的差异逐步减小。从土地出让与城镇化质量的耦合协调发展的视角,为实现城市健康可持续的发展提出政策建议。