阳江五金刀剪产业当前面临的问题与对策

阳江五金刀剪产业作为阳江市的传统优势产业,经过不断发展,至今已成为我国最大的五金刀剪产业集群。近年来,集群内过度竞争、技术创新不足、技术性贸易壁垒和价格竞争优势丧失等问题严重制约着阳江五金刀剪产业的持续健康发展。本文针对这些问题,提出了相应的对策,旨在为实现产业的持续健康发展提供指导意见。     

新形势下加快贵州对外开放研究———兼与广东、内蒙古、重庆比较

贵州作为欠发达、欠开发地区,由于基础设施不健全、地理条件制约,长期以来在国家发展战略中处于辅助的角色,与周边省市产业互补性弱,省内大型企业资源依附性强。随着贵州交通等基础设施条件的改善,尤其是“工业强省”与“城镇化带动”两大战略的实施,新形势下纵深推进对外开放工作正当时。     

Tie the knot: building stronger consumers’ attachment toward a brand

Extant research has promoted the importance and seeking to establish a deeper understanding of brand loyalty. However, it still remains elusive and uncertain. A study with more than 1,500 CEOs worldwide believes that creating a bond with consumers and continuing to learn how to strengthen the bond are essential for realizing strategies and delivering on shareholder expectations. Not surprisingly, firms and researchers are seeking ways to build a stronger connection with consumers, because such attachment acts as a key requisite in a firm’s success. Consequently, understanding how marketers can intensify the attachment is important. This article offers a framework for building stronger consumers’ attachment and testing it based on a survey of 432 participants. Four factors are deemed to be important: ideal self-congruence, sensory experience, responsiveness, and CSR beliefs. Attachment influences loyalty and resilience to negative information. Additionally, attachment fully mediates ideal self-congruence and responsiveness to loyalty, as well as ideal self-congruence and sensory experience to resilience to negative information.     

Banking union: the problem of untried systems

This article explores the problems the EU and the SRB face in trying to implement a credible system for resolving banks without the use of taxpayer funds as a key part of banking union that avoids the doom loop between indebted banks and indebted sovereigns. It finds that without clear examples of how the system works in practice it is very difficult to provide convincing evidence of what will happen given the large number of options for bailing in, the continuing predilection for bailing out in some states and the lack of fiscal backstop for general threats to financial stability.     

Exploring consumers’ purchase intention towards green products in an emerging market: The role of consumers’ perceived readiness

Consumers’ awareness of green products has increased in the last few years, but studies show that the demand for green products has been stagnant. The purpose of this study is to explore the roles of consumers’ perceived readiness to be green and subsequently, how readiness to be green affects consumers’ purchase intention towards green products in an emerging market, Indonesia. A total of 916 survey responses were collected in three universities, two major shopping malls and several housing areas in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The findings reveal that consumers’ attitude (ATT), subjective norm, perceived behavioural control (PBC), pro‐environmental self‐identity (PEI), ethical obligation and consumers’ readiness to be green are the determinants of intention to purchase green products. Consumers’ readiness to be green mediates the effects of ATT, PBC, PEI and perceived sense of responsibility on purchase intention. The study provides further insights into the discrepancy between professed positive attitudes towards the environment and the slow uptake of green behaviour in an emerging market.     

Can Mobile Money Help Firms Mitigate the Problem of Access to Finance in Eastern sub-Saharan Africa?

ABSTRACT

Mobile money is a mobile-phone-based financial tool that can transfer money safely and quickly across a wide geographical area. Mobile money has transformed the way businesses in Eastern sub-Saharan Africa operate. Nowadays, banks team up with mobile-money-service providers and pay interest on deposits and grant loans based on financial transactions in mobile-money accounts. In this paper, these recent developments are investigated in order to determine whether the adoption of mobile money by firms can actually help them mitigate the vexing problem of access to finance. To answer this question, the World Bank’s Enterprise Surveys Program data set for the year 2013 is used, thus making the study applicable to the present time. The results obtained, after controlling for a large number of firm-level characteristics and using a newly introduced measure to identify access-to-finance status of the firms, indicate that firms which use mobile money are more likely to obtain loans or lines of credit. Further analysis shows that the firms that use mobile money are more productive than other firms in the region.     

创业失败复原研究现状探析与未来展望

创业失败是普遍的,失败复原在修复创业失败带来的负面影响、重启创业过程中起到关键作用。创业失败复原是创业失败研究领域的新兴课题,受到学者们广泛关注,但目前整体研究仍处于起步阶段。梳理创业失败复原相关研究,从失败复原概念、影响因素、过程与方法等方面进行系统综述,在评述现有文献不足的基础上,指出未来研究方向。     

On a generalization of a class of production functions

In Appl. Econ. Lett. 18 (2011), 1777–1784, as a natural generalization of some famous production models with two inputs, C.A. Ioan and G. Ioan introduced a new class of production functions with constant return to scale, called sum production function, and proved three theorems of characterization for such production models. In this article, we give new and more simple proofs of these theorems, extending also the results to the case of increased/decreased return to scale. The generalization to the case of an arbitrary number of inputs is also discussed.     

Does income inequality increase marginal propensity to consume?

This article empirically investigates the effects of income inequality on the marginal propensity to consume (MPC), using panel data of 22 OECD countries over the period 1994–2015. We find that MPC increases dramatically as income inequality increases. In subsample analyses, the MPC of a high inequality group is more than twice that of a low inequality group.     

“天赋异禀”、“熟能生巧”还是“日久生情”*——基于中国证券分析师预测能力的经验证据

本文选取2001—2013年证券分析师的预测数据作为研究样本,研究证券分析师的预测能力随时间变化的现象及机理。实证检验表明：（1）分析师的预测能力随着经验积累而显著提高;（2）“新财富”最佳分析师较之于一般分析师并未表现出更强的预测能力（即并不存在“天赋异禀”）;（3）证券分析师预测能力随经验积累而提高并非由于研究能力的提升（即“熟能生巧”）,而是通过所在证券公司的平台与所跟进的公司建立了良好的合作关系（即“日久生情”）。本文不仅丰富了关于影响证券分析师预测能力因素的相关实证研究,同时创造性地进一步剖析了证券分析师预测能力随经验积累提高的内在机理,其结论对于理解分析师学习成长机制、促进中小投资者保护以及推动中国证券市场理性发展具有重要意义。